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White, NJ (2017) The Settlement of Decolonization and Post-Colonial Economic Development. Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 173 (2-3). pp. 208-241. ISSN 0006-2294
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Abstract
Despite impressive growth in the early twenty-first century, Indonesia’s economic performance in the post-colonial era lagged behind that of its neighbours in Malaysia and Singapore. The different development paths chosen, particularly in the treatment of foreign (and, especially, ex-colonial) investment, were central to this—Indonesia’s rejection of Western capital in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued suspicion of foreign economic influence in the 1970s, contrasted with the more open approach of Malaysia and Singapore. How the post-colonial foreign presence was dealt with was largely conditioned by how decolonization was settled—the restrictive agreements reached between Indonesia and the Netherlands, and ongoing Dutch occupation of Irian Jaya, were sources of widespread resentment, and differed significantly from the more liberal approach of the British towards Malaysian and Singaporean independence. The short-term settlement of decolonization was therefore of greater significance than the longer-term nature of colonial rule in determining post-colonial economic patterns.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | MD Multidisciplinary |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| Divisions: | Humanities & Social Science |
| Publisher: | Brill Academic Publishers |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2017 09:34 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 11:20 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1163/22134379-17302003 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6824 |
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