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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815187503321

Autore

Rudner Martin

Titolo

Malaysian development : a retrospective / / Martin Rudner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, : Carleton University Press, 1994

ISBN

1-282-86411-4

9786612864117

0-7735-7385-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 406 p. ; ; 24 cm

Disciplina

338.9595

Soggetti

Economic history

Malaysia Economic policy

Malaysia Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Malaysian Currency Values -- Introduction -- Financial Policies in Post-War Malaya: The Fiscal and monetary Measures of Liberaiion and Reconstruction -- The Malayan Post-War Rice Crisis: An Episode in Colonial Aqriculrural Policy -- Agricultural Policy and Peasant Social Transformation in Late Colonial Malaya -- The Malayan Quandary Rural Development Policy Under The First and Second Five-Year Plans -- Malayan Rubber Policy Development and Anti Development During the 1950s’ -- The State and Peasant Innovation in Rural Development: The Case Of Malaysian Rubber -- Development Policies and Patterns of Agrarian Dominance in The Malaysian Rubber Export Economy -- Trends in Malaysian Development Planning: Coals, Policies And Role Expansion -- Chancing Planninc Perspectives of Agricultural Development in Malaysia -- Agricultural Planning and Development Performance in Malaysia -- Colonial Education Policy and Manpower Underdevelopment in British Malaya -- Education, Development and Chance in Malaysia -- Labour Policy and The Dilemmas of Trade Unionism in Post-War Malaya -- Malayan Labour in Transition: Labour Policy and, Trade Unionism, 1955-63 -- Malaysian Development in Retrospect and Prospect



Sommario/riassunto

A collection of articles provides sweeping insight into the history and dynamics of Malaysian economic, social and political development addressing such policy issues as the impact of agriculture, education and human resource development.