In the present study we conduct constant market share analysis of the imports and apparent consumption of the manufacturing industries of four major economies-Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the USA. Additionally, the current study disaggregates import penetration in manufacturing, including sectors...

This paper is based on a questionnaire survey that examined gender differences with respect to forthcoming marriage, and to expected child birth. The following major results were identified: ‡@ Life satisfaction and subjective well-being were higher among people who planned to get married, as...

Strikingly different patterns of agricultural growth and widely divergent results in terlnsof rural income. poverty. and employment have cmcrged in Southeast Asia. In the Philippiies, with someregional variations, a patterns of declining red farm wages,increasing landlessness in worsening...

International rules governing textiles and apparel trade are undergoing transformation. The Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) is being phased out, and as of January 2005 textiles and apparel trade will be conducted under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. For Indonesia, this presents challenges...

Gavin W. Jones and Terence H. Hull (eds) (1997), Indonesia Assessment: Population and Human Resources, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, Canberra, pp. 373. Cloth S$55.00; US$39.90; A$45.00, paper: S$32.00; US$23.00; A$30.00. William...