Malaysian development: a retrospective

"Malaysia ranks among the most dynamic of the high-growth Southeast Asian economies, but the prospects for Malaysian success have not always seemed so positive. When Malaysia became independent in 1957, it was a poor and deeply troubled country. With weak political and economic structures, it faced the added threat of a Communist Insurgency. Though the decades since have not been kind to many developing countries, Malaysia has managed to avoid the pitfalls that beset others, and has initiated far-reaching policies designed to restructure its society, alleviate poverty, and promote economic growth. With stable government and a vigorous economy, Malaysia today is among the great success stories of East Asian development."--Jacket.

Malaysian Currency Values -- 1. Financial Policies in Post-War Malaya: The Fiscal and Monetary Measures of Liberation and Reconstruction -- 2. The Malayan Post-War Rice Crisis: An Episode in Colonial Agricultural Policy -- 3. Agricultural Policy and Peasant Social Transformation in Late Colonial Malaya -- 4. The Malayan Quandary: Rural Development Policy Under the First and Second Five-Year Plans -- 5. Malayan Rubber Policy: Development and Anti-Development During the 1950s -- 6. The State and Peasant Innovation in Rural Development: The Case of Malaysian Rubber -- 7. Development Policies and Patterns of Agrarian Dominance in the Malaysian Rubber Export Economy -- 8. Trends in Malaysian Development Planning: Goals, Policies and Role Expansion -- 9. Changing Planning Perspectives of Agricultural Development in Malaysia -- 10. Agricultural Planning and Development Performance in Malaysia -- 11. Colonial Education Policy and Manpower Underdevelopment in British Malaya -- 12. Education, Development and Change in Malaysia -- 13. Labour Policy and the Dilemmas of Trade Unionism in Post-War Malaya -- 14. Malayan Labour in Transition: Labour Policy and Trade Unionism, 1955-63 -- Conclusio…