Titlebook: Malayan Rubber: The Interwar Years; John H. Drabble Book 1991 John H. Drabble 1991 assessment.depression.efficiency.growth.institutions.or

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The Industry in Review, habitat. The initiative was that of the British Colonial Office, seeking to establish plantation cultivation to ensure continuity of supply at stable prices to the burgeoning manufacturing industry (e.g. bicycle tyres) in Britain. A basic stock of trees was grown in botanic gardens such as Singapor

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The Estates and Efficiency,as usual, with planters venturing personal capital plus whatever could be raised from family and friends, etc. These relatively slim resources limited the rate at which development could proceed. Consequently, when high prices stimulated a concerted move into a crop, the planted area and hence the p

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The Smallholdings and Survival,1890s, had attracted some Malays on the west coast of the Peninsula, but the short life of the boom left them wary of dependence on the market. However, the high rubber prices of the first decade of the twentieth century culminating in the 1909–10 boom swept aside any doubts. Indigenous Malays were

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Output Assessment under Restriction: The Stevenson Scheme,ustry under free market conditions during the ‘base period’ (November 1919 to October 1920). In addition to their actual output during that period producers could claim additional allowances for trees not then fully mature (i.e. less than eight years old). The allowances were assessed according to a

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Conclusion,duction (estates and smallholdings), and a ‘first stratum’ technology as outlined in the Barlow/Jayasuriya model (see Introduction). The various chapters in this study provide a range of evidence as to why, in the interwar years, the pressures for change in the industry’s structure and technology we

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The Smallholdings and Survival,principal means of livelihood for Malay villagers. Elsewhere, in the Krian district for example, rice cultivation continued alongside rubber. Overall, by the early 1920s an extensive degree of dependence on this product had developed throughout much of the western Peninsula (see Map and Appendix 2).

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The Industry, Government and Decision-Making,fices in the latter (Colonial Office, Treasury, Cabinet, etc.). Moreover, at crucial points in the formulation of policy, powerful individuals in business and in government played decisive roles which neutralised to a large extent the more formal institutional framework as a mediator between the int