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A study concerned with the efforts to help women overcome constraints imposed upon them by a network of social relationships, attitudes of men and gaps in social policy. It emphasizes the need for relativistic theories and differentiated social strategies sensitive to different societies.

This book is about the poor and the constraints of social and economic relationships within which they are trapped. Such constraints have diminished their social and political capacity to be able to escape from poverty. The book deals with the real rather than the abstract notions of poverty.

Many new social and economic organizations are emerging in different parts of Asia Pacific which have skillfully adapted western capitalism to suit their own specific requirements. They have also put to effective use their own social and cultural values to get the best economic results. Japan used its heritage of associated living to overcome adversarial labour and management relations; Singapore made use of Confucial emphasis on social discipline and respect for merit to build a meritocratic society; Indonesia used its genius for eclecticism to build its own brand of social pragmatism, and...