Economic Change in East Malaysia: Sabah and Sarawak since 1850An authoritative economic history of Sabah and Sarawak since the 19th century emphasising their distinctive colonial history and the attempts to modernise them since they became part of Malaysia in 1963. They remain dependent on the production and export of a relatively small range of primary products. The considerable scrutiny from environmentalists and international and local pressure groups of timber exports in particular is examined. The book's examination of economic strategy in these states since the 1880s, demonstrates that the roots of the problems in the 1980s lay in policies formulated in the wider context of capitalist economic growth. |
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Economic Change in East Malaysia: Sabah and Sarawak Since 1850 Amarjit Kaur No preview available - 1998 |
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1985 state elections acres agricultural Amarjit Kaur Annual Report North Annual Report Sarawak areas Barisan Nasional Berjaya Borneo Company bridle paths British North Borneo Brooke administration Brunei Bumiputera cent Chartered Company Chief Minister Chinese coal coast colonial concessions crops Datuk Dayak Development in Sabah economic development established exploitation federal forest products forest resources Forestry gold Government Printer Iban immigration important indigenous groups interior James Brooke Jesselton Kadazan Kuala Lumpur Kuching Kudat Labuan legislation licences logging Malay Malaya Melanau mineral mining monopoly native North Borneo Sabah organisation padi party Peninsular Malaysia pepper period Permanent Forest petroleum Plan plantation planting political population railway Rajah Rajang River recruitment Report North Borneo revenue rice river road rubber Sabah and Sarawak sago Sandakan Sarawak Gazette sector shifting cultivation Singapore smallholders Subsequently Table Tawau territories timber exports timber industry tobacco trade transport USNO utilisation workers