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This article examines the implications of women's access to income‐earning opportunities for their position in intra‐household relationships. For those who believe that such relationships are egalitarian, this issue may not appear relevant; for others, however, there is a divergence of views between those who offer an optimistic analysis of the effects of earning power for women's status, and those who provide a more pessimistic prognosis. In exploring this issue, the article makes use of first‐hand accounts of women workers in the recently emergent export‐oriented garment factories in Bangladesh, both in order to evaluate the 'fit' with theoretical insights of intra‐household relations from the social science literature, and to assess what the 'everyday lived realities' described by the women workers tell us about the workings of power within family‐based households in urban Bangladesh.

AbstractMuch of the growth in trade among the industrialised countries, and more recently among countries in the Asia‐Pacific region, has taken the form of intra‐industry trade (HT). Australia has historically had one of the lowest shares of IIT among OECD countries. This article examines how Australia's IIT has changed in the 1980s in response to the process of trade liberalisation and completion of the Closer Economic Relations (CER) pact with New Zealand. HT indexes are estimated for Australia's multilateral and trans‐Tasman trade for 1981 and 1991 for 132 industries using data at the 3 and 4‐digit level of the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC). The results point to a sharp increase in the share of IIT for both multilateral and trans‐Tasman trade. Industries that have undergone the largest reductions in protection levels have increased their shares of IIT quite considerably. Increased intra‐industry specialisation suggests that the short‐run adjustment costs associated with trade liberalisation are likely to be lower. If IIT continues to grow in response to the ongoing process of internationalisation of the Australian economy, then Australia's prospects for expanding its share of world trade are good.

Evidence from six Mexican states is analyzed about changes in
government organisation and performance arising from decentralisation and the
recasting of federalism structures. Spurred by rising pluralism, greater electoral
transparency, alternancia, and willingness of the Centre to 'let go',
a more genuine structure of shared powers is emerging between the executive (governors), the
legislature and the judiciary. The government bureaucracy is undergoing
modernisation, and governors are seeking to share power with legislatures as a
means of sharing the responsibilities of statecraft. Local congresses are exercising
greater 'checks' and 'balances' vis-à-vis the executive branch. Finally, the
judiciary is beginning to be reorganised, particularly at the national (Supreme
Court) level, where it is starting to develop jurisprudence relating to inter- and
intra-governmental relations.

Considers 2 aspects of social relations in the regions of Xinjiang, Ningxia and Gansu: relations among the various Muslim communities and relations between the Muslims and the majority Han. Analyzes these relations within the context of minority policies instituted and implemented in these regions, as well as of certain other realities such as population and the emerging narcotics problem in Xinjiang. (Original abstract - amended)

Examines emerging role of state government arising from decentralization, sharing power among governors, legislatures, and the judiciary, checks and balances, and reorganization of the judiciary.