Managing Empowerment in Emerging States

The following sections are included:The Concept of EmpowermentLabor’s Employment and EmpowermentLabor in Gandhi and Young MarxThe US–China Trade Imbalance and the Export of American JobsBecker Unitary Model of Income AllocationExtension of Becker Model to a Country and to Its ProvincesBecker’s (1973, 1974) Unitary Model of Intra-Household Utility (Income) AllocationBecker’s Altruistic DictatorsApplication of Becker’s Model to Nation StatesLegitimacy AcquisitionGovernance Heads: Becker’s Altruistic Dictators: China and East AsiaJapanUtility Allocation by the Altruistic DictatorLegitimacy AcquisitionConfederate India: Essential Traits of Political GovernanceLegitimacy to Govern for Empowerment of Citizens in IndiaDUP Activities, Rent-Seeking Practices and Empowerment in IndiaRent Seeking Among Private Citizens; Leaders of Business and Groups of RuffiansBrazilCorruption, Rent Seeking in China and East AsiaMalaysia, Indonesia and VietnamVietnamJapan, Korea and SingaporeBengal Province and IndiaPareto Optimality in Financial Resource AllocationAccrual of Rent from Economic TransactionTheoretical Analysis of Rent-Seeking ActivitiesThe Term “Empowerment”Development StateFeatures of a Developmental StateMental Unfreedom (Poverty)Economic UnfreedomGender-Based Discrimination in China and IndiaIndiaLand Ownership RightsViolence Against WomenJapanBrazil and Other Emerging EconomiesKoreaIndonesiaThailandMalaysiaVietnamPolygamy: Passing CommentsPopulation in Villages and TownsThe Issue of Missing Girls and WomenThe Number of Missing Women and GirlsOther Estimates and The World Bank EstimateDowry-Related DeathsThe Direction of the State’s Action to Empower Its CitizensDo Women Want to Be Empowered?Tribal Women’s Freedom in Rural Hinterland vs. Non-Tribal Economically Non-Poor Women’s Unfreedom in Urban Land