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Based on research carried out in South Sulawesi, this article examines the influences of Indonesia's economic crisis on low-income women's spatial mobility, and the consequences of these women's increased rural-return migration on household ''safety nets''. Specifically, the investigation focuses on changes in migration patterns and household compositions since the beginning of the crisis, and the...
This paper examines narratives of the transformations in the small-scale food-retailing sector in urban Southeast Asia. The recent Asian financial crisis sharpens the need to look at the transformation in urban self-employment more generally and food vending in particular as this livelihood has become a source of income for many of the formerly employed. Journalistic accounts, scholarly work, government...
This paper examines the extent to which the Asian currency crisis of 1997-1998 impacted upon the behaviour of Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) in the manufacturing sector. Much literature has claimed that transnational corporations (TNCs) are unlikely to be firmly embedded in the host countries where they operate. If this is the case, then Japanese firms in Asia might have exhibited a high...
This paper offers a preliminary assessment of some implications of the Asian financial crisis for theories about the development of a global economy. The paper (i) draws together some of the available evidence about the history of the crisis, and (ii) identifies some current diagnoses of its cause before (iii) arguing that the central implication of the crisis is that it enables us to identify the...
Whereas international capital flows into Asia were once thought to drive the region's modern economic development, the 1997/1998 financial crisis would appear to have suggested the opposite. The volatility of capital flows over this period, however, fails to reveal that a significant engine fuelling past economic growth of Asia has been the more spatially immobile investments of transnational corporations...
The East Asian financial crisis had a major impact on the regional operations of banks, and in particular investment banks. As the financial crisis deepened during 1997 and 1998, numerous European and North American banks began to restructure their organizational capabilities in capital markets, foreign exchange, securities, and project finance, as they became exposed to bad debts and reductions in...
This paper considers explanations for the financial crisis which has traumatised a number of Asian economies in the last two years. The paper highlights the recent literature on the causes of the crisis and points out in particular the role of financial markets in corporate governance and the consequent importance of financial regulation in the affected economies. It argues that financial markets...
One of the main responses to the Asian economic crisis, which began in 1997, has been the adoption of structural adjustment programs (SAPs), sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, economic liberalization and unmediated integration into global economy were largely responsible for the crisis. Further economic liberalization under the auspices of SAPs, while seeming to deal with...
This paper examines the internal structural conditions of the current Korean economic crisis with a special focus on the issue of labor regulation. This paper argues that the Korean economic crisis was structurally conditioned by the internal political processes that resulted in the crisis of labor regulation, which in turn negatively affected the competitiveness and profitability of Korean industries...
The 1997 Thai financial crisis marked the end of a decade of remarkable economic growth and structural change. Prior to the economic collapse the Thai economy had been regarded by many as a case of successful economic growth engendered by rapid liberalisation. With the crisis Thailand became depicted as an economy with inadequate financial regulation and macreconomic management. This has to be seen...
The articulation between global food commodity complexes and the local production regimes of particular contexts is a major gap in the new political economy literature on food regimes, food complexes, agricultural restructuring and local adjustment. This paper explores how different regions of producers in the New Zealand apple industry in the mid-1990s have negotiated the local export regime of production...
The literature on recent trends in immigration in Europe has stressed the change in migration balances in Southern Europe, from centres of emigration to immigration. This literature generally considers Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain as a relatively homogeneous European geographical region which is affected by similar immigration patterns. However, immigration into each of these countries has its...
One of the most important shifts in the theorisation of the social construction of gender identities has been the recognition of their relational and multiple nature. In my work, on merchant banking in the city of London, I suggested that two dominant rhetorics of masculinity and gendered performances, adopted by men working in particular spaces in banks, were distinguishable. In this paper, I return...
The aim of this paper is to evaluate whether there are spatial variations in first, the benefits of living in a household with wage earners rather than a wholly jobless household and second, the coping abilities of jobless households. To do this, 511 households in various neighbourhoods in a relatively affluent southern city and a poorer northern urban area in the UK are studied in terms of their...
In recent years considerable research has been conducted on the phenomenon of rural industrialisation. Within this area of study the growth and performance of small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) have received particular attention. Competing schools of thought have sought to explain both the development and the competitive strategies of such enterprises in terms of the geographical...
Since 1978, China has introduced economic reforms and open policies for some people and places to get rich first, in the hope of redistributing wealth eventually. In reality, disparities between and within regions, urban and rural areas, and different social strata have increased. This paper attempts to explore the underlying factors of intra-provincial disparities through a case study of Jiangsu...
The production strategies of transnational corporations (TNCs) have revolutionized the structure of global port and container shipping industries as both have adopted information and communication technology (ICT) to better articulate the spatial movement of goods between producing and consuming regions. This research first explores the structural synergies between TNC production, ICT and container...
In recent years, something of a consensus has emerged regarding the need to build local institutional capacity in order to foster and support 'embedded' and sustainable forms of local economic development. This paper focuses on efforts to build local institutional capacity in two British regions - Wales and North East England - with a similar industrial past but dissimilar institutional structures...
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