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Weathering the Storm : The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression

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 l...

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Autor principal: Boomgaard, Peter
Otros Autores: Brown, Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : ISEAS, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.