UID:
almafu_9960120022102883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
981-230-507-6
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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 the economies of Southeast Asia that were of long-term importance, such as the role of the state in the economy. The authors also draw similarities and contrasts between the 1930s depression and the 1990s Asian crisis.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Tables --
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List of Figures --
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Acknowledgements --
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List of Contributors --
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1. The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression: An Introduction /
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PART I Material Conditions --
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2. Surviving the Slump: Developments in Real Income During the Depression of the 1930s in Indonesia, Particularly Java /
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3. The Philippines in the Great Depression: A Geography of Pain /
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4. Uneven Impact and Regional Responses: The Philippines in the 1930s Depression /
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5. Material Conditions in Rural Lower Burma During the Economic Crisis of the Early 1930s: What the Cotton Textile Import Figures Reveal /
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PART II Agricultural Strategies --
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6. Structural Origins of the Economic Depression in Indonesia During the 1930s /
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7. Entrepreneurial Strategies in Indigenous Export Agriculture in the Outer Islands of Colonial Indonesia, 1925-38 /
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8. The Economy of Besuki in the 1930s Depression /
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9. The Rice Economy of Thailand in the 1930s Depression /
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10. Rice and the Colonial Lobby: The Economic Crisis in French Indo-China in the 1920s and 1930s /
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PART III Trading Communities --
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11. Hadhrami Arab Entrepreneurs in Indonesia and Malaysia: Facing the Challenge of the 1930s Recession /
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PART IV The State's Response --
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12. The State and the 1930s Depression in French Indo-China /
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13. Imperial Unity Versus Local Autonomy: British Malaya and the Depression of the 1930s /
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14. Crisis and Response: A Study of Foreign Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in Three Southeast Asian Colonies in the 1930s /
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 981-230-079-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 981-230-080-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1355/9789812305077
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