Agriculture in the Malaysian Region
Agriculture in the Malaysian Region

Author: R.D. Hill

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9971696010

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Malaysia's transition from a country dependent on agriculture and mining to an industrialized society is readily apparent, but the process of change remains poorly understood. When R.D. Hill began studying agriculture in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei in the 1960s, he found swiddening, market-gardening, semi-commercial wet-rice cultivation and large scale plantations. Today, Malaysian agriculture has become highly capital-intensive and increasingly specialized, and many forms of production have all but disappeared. Once dependent on the export of primary products such as tin, rubber and palm oil, Malaysia is now an industrialized, middle income country. Singapore has nearly abandoned its primary sector. This completely revised edition of Hill's 1982 study, with two lengthy new chapters, explains the evolution of agriculture in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore over the last forty years, with particular attention to the agro-ecosystems of the major crops.

Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia
Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia

Author: Henry Berstein

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 131784520X

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This volume originated in a conference on 'Capitalist Plantations in Colonial Asia', held at the Centre for Asian Studies of the University of Amsterdam and Free University of Amsterdam in September 1990. The contributions to this collection focus on the production of rubber, sugar, tea, and several less strategic plantation crops, in colonial Indochina, Java, Malaya, the Philippines, India, Ceylon, Mauritius and Fiji (although geographically anomalous, both the latter are included because of the centrality to their sugar plantations of indentured labour from India).

Readings on Malaysian Economic Development
Readings on Malaysian Economic Development

Author: David Lim

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13:

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Textbook on the economic development of Malaysia - covers exports and economic growth, the balance of payments, agricultural policy, industrial development and industrial planning, import substitution, unemployment and employment creation, income distribution and fiscal policy, human resources, etc. Annotated bibliographys, diagrams, graphs, maps, references and statistical tables.

Malaysian Development
Malaysian Development

Author: Martin Rudner

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780886292201

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"Malaysia ranks among the most dynamic of the high-growth Southeast Asian economies, but the prospects for Malaysian success have not always seemed so positive. When Malaysia became independent in 1957, it was a poor and deeply troubled country. With weak political and economic structures, it faced the added threat of a Communist Insurgency. Though the decades since have not been kind to many developing countries, Malaysia has managed to avoid the pitfalls that beset others, and has initiated far-reaching policies designed to restructure its society, alleviate poverty, and promote economic growth. With stable government and a vigorous economy, Malaysia today is among the great success stories of East Asian development."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved