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The author shows that despite fiscal decentralization and the devolution of considerable authority to the local level during the 1980s, provincial government in China remained dependent on budgetary subsidies from the central government. This was true not only for poor provinces that received central subsidies but also for rich provinces that were net exporters of funds to the centre. (DÜI-Sen)

The author describes the Allapuzha model which represents a hierarchical structure for informal women's groups in rural areas in India. Its basis is effective people's participation in PMC management in tiny rural industries. The model can be more effectively implemented if the members of the primary groups are aware of the benefits of group efforts, which in turn implies consideration education. (DSE/DÜI)

Chinese university students were politically active in the 1980s. The 1980s cohort was growing up in a period of rapid change. The author examines the political orientation of Chinese university students after the 1989 movement. He discusses the ideological crisis of the Chinese youths, impact of the 1989 incident, unchanged political attitudes, before and after 1989, among other issues. (DÜI-Sen)

Meigu county is situated in the North-east of Liangshan Prefecture. The population is about 155,000, of whom 95% are of the Yi nationatity. The author discusses religious and social structures of Meigu, based on interviews carried out between 1997 and 1998. He notes that the small county of Meigu contains a surprising diversity of situations. (DÜI-Sen)

Just before the handover of sovereignty, Hong Kong and Macau experienced an unusual enthusiasm for their own history. The Hong Kong government began building several museums. In Macau, too,the buildung of museums has been significant. The author discusses an impossible balancing act in Hongkong, its six thousand years of history, an worrying alliance between power and memory in Macau, among other themes. (DÜI-Sen)

After an overview of ASEAN, the author outlines and highlights ASEAN and the ASEAN Regional Forum, ASEAN as an economic institution with special reference to ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum, the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), the Asian economic crisis and its consequences for ASEAN, among other topics. (DÜI-Sen)

Because of the Human Rights celebration, the author analyzes its main aspects, pointing to the fact that human rights were taken into account around the world. However, he emphasizes that the philosophy in which they are based has to do primarily with European culture, leading to criticisms that they are too Occidental & liberal. 1 Appendix. Adapted from the source document.

The author examines the Asian economic crisis from the perspective of China's policy to open up to the outside world, which has been in effect since 1978. He discusses China's drive to modernization seizing opportunities from globalization, China's gains and losses in respect of globalization, the Asian economic crisis as a timely warning to China among other issues. (DÜI-Sen)

Describes the experience of the author as AIDS researcher, witness to the disease on an intimate one-on-one level, and social activist working as a needle exchanger, friend to the dying, and organizer of conferences and hearings; argues that the roles of activist and scholar are complementary and guarantee that scholarship is meaningful and relevant; US.

The author of this article, who is an Ecuadorian journalist, offers his own hard-hitting assessment of oil exploitation in his country. He fiercely criticises the oil companies' record in dealing with indigenous people and argues that, while there may have been some recent initiatives to protect the original inhabitants, the reality is that not much has changed. (The Courier/DÜI)

This article explores the Wye Memorandum within the context of the peace process. The author argues that, although similar in its fundamentals to the previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements, Wye commits the Palestinian Authority, under the guise of reciprocity, to new security arrangements aiming at destroying opposition to the Oslo process and doing away with internationally sanctioned Palestinian rights.

THE TASK OF ENVISIONING AND BUILDING POLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH STRANGERS IS ONE OF GLOBALIZATION'S MAIN CHALLENGES. ALTHOUGH MODERN TECHNOLOGY HAS GIVEN THE POLITICS OF DISTANCE A NEW DIMENSION, THEIR ORIGINS LIE IN THE ERA OF SAILING SHIPS AND THE STEAM ENGINE, NOT SUPERSONIC TRANSPORTS AND THE INTERNET. THE AUTHOR CLAIMS THAT THIS IS GLOBALIZATION, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STYLE.

This article critically examines the ways in which the trope of prosthesis has been used in recent theory to understand human-technology relationships. Analyzing the trope from a number of angles, including disability, factory labor practices, mass production, and marketing, the author scrutinizes ways in which technologies are simultaneously wounding and enabling in ways for which the prosthesis trope cannot account.

Defining business cycles as fluctuations of the period of the cycle of less than eight years, the author explores the business cycles of the USA and seven East Asian economies, i.e. Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. International co-movements in GDP and consumption among the East Asian economies are also scrutinized. (DÜI-Sen)

As the author sees it, the labour market is usually the final and perhaps the most regulated component of a market economy. As market-oriented economic reform deepened, a labour market emerged in the PRC by the end of the 1980s. He examines this labour market and the socio-economic impact of the labour market. (DÜI-Sen)