Weathering the Storm : The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression
Peter. Boomgaard
Bok Engelsk 2000 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Pasir Panjang, Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , 2000
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (347 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1 The Economics of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression: An Introduction; 2 Surviving the Slump: Developments in Real Income During the Depression of the 1930S in Indonesia, Particularly Java; 3 The Philippines in the Great Depression: A Geography of Pain; 4 Uneven Impact and Regional Responses: The Philippines in the 1930s Depression; 5 Material Conditions in Rural Lower Burma During the Economic Crisis of the Early 1930s: What the Cotton Textile Import Figures Reveal. - 13 Imperial Unity Versus Local Autonomy: British Malaya and the Depression of the 1930s14 Crisis and Response: A Study of Foreign Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in Three Southeast Asian Colonies in the 1930s; Index. - 6 Structural Origins of the Economic Depression in Indonesia During the 1930s7 Entrepreneurial Strategies in Indigenous Export Agriculture in the Outer Islands of Colonial Indonesia, 1925; 8 The Economy of Besuki in the 1930s Depression; 9 The Rice Economy of Thailand in the 1930s Depression; 10 Rice and the Colonial Lobby: The Economic Crisis in French Indo-China in the 1920s and 1930s; 11 Hadhrami Arab Entrepreneurs in Indonesia and Malaysia Facing the Challenge of the 1930s Recession; 12 The State and the 1930s Depression in the French Indo-China. - The principal cause of the 1930s depression in Southeast Asia lay outside the region - through a sharp contraction in demand for the region's major commodity exports. But it had important internal causes too: an oversupply of primary commodities and an increasing scarcity of new agricultural land leading to higher rents and lower wages, rising indebtedness and increasing landlessness. This work thoroughly analyses the pre-war depression. It also looks at the changes in the basic structures of...
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| ISBN | 9812300791. - 9812300805
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