Weathering the Storm : : The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression / / ed. by Peter Boomgaard, Ian Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Boomgaard, Peter,; Booth, Anne,; Brocheux, Pierre,; Brown, Ian,; Clarence-Smith, William Gervase,; Doeppers, Daniel F.,; Kratoska, Paul H.,; Lindblad, J. Thomas,; Manarungsan, Sompop,; Nawiyanto, S.,; Nørlund, Irene,; Touwen, Jeroen,; Wolters, W. G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Boomgaard, Peter,; Brown, Ian,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)

The principal cause of the 1930s depression in Southeast Asia lay outside the region — through a sharp contraction in demand for the region’s major commodity exports. But it had important internal causes too: an oversupply of primary commodities and an increasing scarcity of new agricultural land leading to higher rents and lower wages, rising indebtedness and increasing landlessness. This work thoroughly analyses the pre-war depression. It also looks at the changes in the basic structures of the economies of Southeast Asia that were of long-term importance, such as the role of the state in the economy. The authors also draw similarities and contrasts between the 1930s depression and the 1990s Asian crisis.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1. The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression: An Introduction -- PART I Material Conditions -- 2. Surviving the Slump: Developments in Real Income During the Depression of the 1930s in Indonesia, Particularly Java -- 3. The Philippines in the Great Depression: A Geography of Pain -- 4. Uneven Impact and Regional Responses: The Philippines in the 1930s Depression -- 5. Material Conditions in Rural Lower Burma During the Economic Crisis of the Early 1930s: What the Cotton Textile Import Figures Reveal -- PART II Agricultural Strategies -- 6. Structural Origins of the Economic Depression in Indonesia During the 1930s -- 7. Entrepreneurial Strategies in Indigenous Export Agriculture in the Outer Islands of Colonial Indonesia, 1925-38 -- 8. The Economy of Besuki in the 1930s Depression -- 9. The Rice Economy of Thailand in the 1930s Depression -- 10. Rice and the Colonial Lobby: The Economic Crisis in French Indo-China in the 1920s and 1930s -- PART III Trading Communities -- 11. Hadhrami Arab Entrepreneurs in Indonesia and Malaysia: Facing the Challenge of the 1930s Recession -- PART IV The State's Response -- 12. The State and the 1930s Depression in French Indo-China -- 13. Imperial Unity Versus Local Autonomy: British Malaya and the Depression of the 1930s -- 14. Crisis and Response: A Study of Foreign Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in Three Southeast Asian Colonies in the 1930s -- Index