Western enterprise in Indonesia and Malaya : a study in economic development / G. C. Allen and Audrey G. Donnithorne.

Author
Allen, G. C. (George Cyril), 1900-1982 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Routledge, 2003.
Description
1 online resource (325 p.)

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Summary note
This book demonstrates exact scholarship (and an) understanding of the way in which business works...(it has) a capacity to reduce a mass of apparently unrelated facts into the neat shape of theory.""The Economist
Describing and analyzing the part played by Western firms and governments in the economic development of Indonesia and Malaysia, the period covered by this survey extends from the early decades of the nineteenth century to the 1950s. Special attention is given to the changes that have taken place since the Second World War. The intricate economic relations between Weste
Notes
First published in 1957.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 29, 2013).
Language note
English
Contents
  • Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; MAP ; I The Course of Western Enterprise ; II The Instruments of Western Enterprise ; III Agriculture in Indonesia: General Aspects ; IV The Java Sugar Industry ; V Some Indonesian Plantations: Coffee, Cinchona, Tobacco and Tea ; VI The Rubber Industry in Malaya and Indonesia; VII Agricultural Diversification: Palm Oil and Cocoa; VIII The Malayan Mining Industries; IX The Indonesian Mining Industries; X Banking in Indonesia; XI Banking in Malaya; XII Shipping; XIII Public Utilities; XIV Commerce
  • XV Manufacturing IndustriesXVI Achievements and Prospects: A Summary; APPENDICES ; I Population ; II Western Investments in Indonesia ; III Western Investments in Malaya ; IV Indonesia's Export Trade ; V Malaya's Trade ; VI Rubber Statistics ; VII Tin Statistics ; VIII Production Indices ; IX Planted Areas ; X A Note on Forestry ; XI Trades of the Great East ; XII A Note on the Statute of Union between the Netherlands and Indonesia; XIII Chambers of Commerce ; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ; SUBJECT INDEX
ISBN
  • 1-136-50280-7
  • 1-315-01630-3
OCLC
  • 862613813
  • 868979780
Doi
  • 10.4324/9781315016306
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