Preface Oiwan Lam, Monina Wong Introduction: Grappling with Theory and Practice Lau Kin Chi and Jeannie Manipon
PART A People's Responses to the Financial Crisis and Economic Transition
KOREA - From Asian Tiger to Asian 'Beggar' Yeon-hee Cho PHILIPPINES - Why Women, Why Work? Whelma Villar INDONESIA - Women in Small Business Hardest Hit Foundation for Women in Small Business The exposure trips - Akatiga translated by Carla Bianpoen -Poor Urban Women as Household Managers -Weaving Textiles, Reaping Rupiahs -Organic Farming: An Alternative for Survival THAILAND - Development Paradigm and New Alternatives Somkiat Pongpaiboon CHINA - Responses of Women/Workers to Economic Transition -Overcoming the Dark Side of Reality Feng Xiaoshuang and Wang Hong, translated by Sit Tsui -Personal Letters and Private Lives .... Tan. Shen, translated by Lau Kin Chi -Occupational Inter-Flow of Urban aJ Tang Can, translated by Lau Kin Chi -Conditions in China after East Asia Feng Xiaoshuang and Tang Can
PART B Alternatives in Action People's Alternatives: Roundtable Discussion KK Krishna Kumar, Menno Salverda and Somkiat Pongpaiboon
ALTERNATIVE TRADE Grassroots Trading Initiatives in Negros and the Philippines Raymundo G. Tenefrancia Notes for the Coming Millennium Raymundo G. Tenefrancia COMMUNITY CURRENCIES An Innovative System to Promote Economic Self-Reliance Jeff Pow ell and Menno Salverda Balancing the Power of Money Menno Salverda PEOPLE'S PLANNING KSSP and the People's Plan Movement of Kerala KK Krishna Kumar Know the Country, Change the Country All India People's Science Network
PART C Beyond the Financial Crisis The 1997 Financial Crisis and Asian prograssive Joel Rocamora
Appendix Statement of Solidarity for Democracy Participants' List
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