Colonial Legacies : Economic and Social Development in East and Southeast Asia /

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Main Author: Booth, Anne, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Economic growth and structural change, 1900-1940
  • Agricultural expansion, population growth and access to land
  • What were colonial governments doing? The myth of the night watchman
  • State
  • International trade, the balance of payments, and exchange rate policies: 1900-1940
  • Growth and diversification of the market economy
  • Changing living standards and human development
  • The greater Asian co-prosperity sphere: 1942-1945
  • The transition to independent states
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.