Reviews for Faroes Islands Country Study Guide

The average rating for Faroes Islands Country Study Guide based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-01-24 00:00:00 Paul Hayden It took me a while to realize that this book is published in the year of 2005. Over Fifteen years has passed and some of the information are considered outdated. However, this book offered so much insights on the liberalization policy that established by The world Bank and IMF and at the same time, the weaknesses of the policy itself that has inflicted a grievous injury to many Southeast Asian countries especially on the unpaid labor bore by the women of these countries. I was somewhat disappointed to discover that the author covered only Taiwan, Indonesia and Philippines as her research ground to show why measuring GNP and GDP doesn't really portrayed the economic development in a definitive way. I was hoping if anyone reading this review can enlighten me on why Taiwan was considered as Southeast Asia when in fact it is located in East Asia in this book. I thought author will share later why she put classify Taiwan as Southeast Asia but she never did. I would only recommend this book if you love economic perspective and theory or you have term paper or assignment regarding liberalization and are in need of some enlightenment regarding the policy. Otherwise, you wouldn't enjoy this book. . . Taiwan Chapter : This chapter evaluate the trend of using women as cheap labor has long benefitted the large industry like Manufacturing in Taiwan. Indonesia Chapter - This chapter highlighted the strength of non governmental organization in carrying out welfare functions because the inability of the government to do so. It also stresses that most of the volunteers in this organization are women despite being stifled by regulation and restrictions. Philippines Chapter - This chapter discusses on why most migrant workers and the hospitality industry are thriving among philippines women. What are the similarity that these women in all of these 3 countries has? Most of them shifted from rural to urban area and right to outside of the countries for the betterment of their family lives. Taking Philippines and Indonesia as an example, most of these women choose Middle Eastern countries as their work destination in the hope of searching for better income. Once hired, they sending all of the money they have made abroad to their family in the country.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-11-04 00:00:00 David Kelley A well-written if underwhelming tour of the lives of America's gilded class. The book is dated for having been published over a decade ago and indeed right before the calamitous 2008 financial crisis. Frank doesn't engage the question of whether it is ethical or spiritually healthy for anyone to accumulate hundreds of millions of dollars in personal wealth or to own multiple colors of the same Rolls Royce Phantom. What he does illustrate though is just how many people like this there are (a lot) and the degree to which money itself feels like an illusory concept. Perhaps before 2008 it was still plausible to feel like there was anything remotely wholesome about this kind of accumulation, but I would volunteer that far fewer people would receive this book well today. The analysis is very journalistic, lots of scenes and quotes, but also light on big picture contextualizing. For that reason I would say its analytic value today is limited, although it is an easy read.