Courtenay .:. Trade and Development in Malaya

Courtenay, P.P.,
A Geography of Trade and Development in Malaya. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1972. XII, 286 Seiten mit 28 Abbildungen (meist Karten) und Register. Pappband (gebunden) mit Schutzumschlag.

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Bestell-Nr.154869 | ISBN: 0-7135-1624-0

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Courtenay | Oekonomie | Geographie | Suedasien | Malaya

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Klappentext
The study of the economic geography of very many parts of the tropical world is frequently concerned with three distinct economic sectors—a subsistence or nearsubsistence agricultural sector, with its roots in a traditional past; an export sector, concerned with the production for overseas markets of a limited range of raw materials; and a small modern industrial sector, struggling to diversify the national economy and to provide additional employment for a burgeoning population. If the subsistence sector of such an economy is considered to be 'indigenous' (at least in the sense of being precolonial), the export sector is invariably the direct or indirect result of a colonial experience, whilst industrial diversification is the consequence of deliberate measures taken politically.
This threefold pattern is sufficiently common in the former colonial countries of the world for a generalized interpretation to be possible, and this is attempted in the first chapter of this book. After the initial construction of a framework, the book is concerned with the analysis of the evolution of the economic geography of Malaya as a specific case—concentrating particularly on the growth of a regionally specialized export economy within a mainly laissezfaire economic environment, and on the modification of this specialization by the planned development of manufacturing industry in the period since the Second World War.

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