Author: Henry J. Bruton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Sri Lanka and Malaysia have similar land areas and resource endowments. Both countries were once colonies, and in both a large plantation and mining export sector coexists with a peasant rice economy. The expansion of the plantation and mining sector in past centuries attracted large numbers of immigrant Indian and Chinese workers and created plural societies composed of different ethnic groups with different cultures and traditions. Despite this common background, these two countries have had very different experiences with economic development since their independence. Malaysia achieved unusually high growth rates but had trouble with equity and employment and did not establish an indigenous growth process. Sri Lanka did well on equity by trying to maintain its culture and Buddhist heritage, but its policies created problems with productivity and balance of payments and finally led to a virtual collapse of the economy by early 1970. The author and his associates point to the constraints within which government policies in both countries were made, and they seek to evaluate the origins and legitimacy of these constraints. Their much-needed, comparative study is readable, thorough, and sometimes provocative.
Sri Lanka and Malaysia
Author: Henry J. Bruton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Sri Lanka and Malaysia have similar land areas and resource endowments. Both countries were once colonies, and in both a large plantation and mining export sector coexists with a peasant rice economy. The expansion of the plantation and mining sector in past centuries attracted large numbers of immigrant Indian and Chinese workers and created plural societies composed of different ethnic groups with different cultures and traditions. Despite this common background, these two countries have had very different experiences with economic development since their independence. Malaysia achieved unusually high growth rates but had trouble with equity and employment and did not establish an indigenous growth process. Sri Lanka did well on equity by trying to maintain its culture and Buddhist heritage, but its policies created problems with productivity and balance of payments and finally led to a virtual collapse of the economy by early 1970. The author and his associates point to the constraints within which government policies in both countries were made, and they seek to evaluate the origins and legitimacy of these constraints. Their much-needed, comparative study is readable, thorough, and sometimes provocative.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Sri Lanka and Malaysia have similar land areas and resource endowments. Both countries were once colonies, and in both a large plantation and mining export sector coexists with a peasant rice economy. The expansion of the plantation and mining sector in past centuries attracted large numbers of immigrant Indian and Chinese workers and created plural societies composed of different ethnic groups with different cultures and traditions. Despite this common background, these two countries have had very different experiences with economic development since their independence. Malaysia achieved unusually high growth rates but had trouble with equity and employment and did not establish an indigenous growth process. Sri Lanka did well on equity by trying to maintain its culture and Buddhist heritage, but its policies created problems with productivity and balance of payments and finally led to a virtual collapse of the economy by early 1970. The author and his associates point to the constraints within which government policies in both countries were made, and they seek to evaluate the origins and legitimacy of these constraints. Their much-needed, comparative study is readable, thorough, and sometimes provocative.
Sojourners to Citizens
Author: Rajakrishnan Ramasamy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Malaya
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Malaya
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Rethinking Ethnicity and Nation-building
Author: Abdul Rahman Embong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789834364731
Category : Ethnicity
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789834364731
Category : Ethnicity
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Sri Lanka - Malaysia Relations, Some Recollections
Sri Lanka and Malaysia
Author: Henry Jackson Bruton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Income distribution
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Income distribution
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sinhalese Immigrants in Malaysia & Singapore, 1860-1990
Author: S. N. Arseculeratne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Concerns the history of Sri Lankan immigrants to Malaysia and Singapore. Much of the material for this history is based on interviews with members of the Sinhalese communities in Singapore and Malaysia. The Japanese occupation of Singapore is extensively covered.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Concerns the history of Sri Lankan immigrants to Malaysia and Singapore. Much of the material for this history is based on interviews with members of the Sinhalese communities in Singapore and Malaysia. The Japanese occupation of Singapore is extensively covered.
Incentives and Behaviour in the Ethnic Politics of Sri Lanka and Malaysia
Author: Donald L. Horowitz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789559195115
Category : Malaysia
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789559195115
Category : Malaysia
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Nationalism in Sri Lanka and Malaysia
Author: R. M. H. Sujeeva Ratnayaka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Portrait of a Sri Lankan Malay
Author: B. D. K. Saldin
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Category : Malays
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Malays
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Poems from India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia & Singapore
Author: Malini Yasmine Gooneratne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description