Sangla is a land-pawning contract in the Philippines in which the pawner temporarily transfers his cultivation rights to the pawnee in return for a loan and can redeen these rights on loan repayment. The author carried out field survey in some villages of Nueva Ecija, Lagan and Akan provinces to...

Through a comparison of the Philippines and Thailand, the author seeks to understand the dynamic process of the urban informal labour market which arises in the course of urbanization in developing countries. After discussing the rural to urban migration in the urbanization of these two...