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DIVERSIFICATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN SOME SOUTH‐EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES
Author(s) -
DESHPANDE V. D.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
the developing economies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.305
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1746-1049
pISSN - 0012-1533
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1049.1967.tb00503.x
Subject(s) - diversification (marketing strategy) , colonialism , industrialisation , agriculture , metropolitan area , economic geography , agricultural diversification , development economics , agricultural productivity , east asia , geography , economy , foreign exchange , economics , production (economics) , economic system , business , market economy , china , macroeconomics , archaeology , marketing , monetary economics
An attempt is made in this paper to study the diversification of agricultural production attained during the 1950's by some of the Southeast Asian countries. Diversification of agricultural production was thought to be one of the important steps towards the transformation of a colonial economy into a national one. Characteristics of the colonial economy in the context of conditions around 1950 have been exhaustively studied from time to time. 1 During the subsequent years, however, conditions changed and new forms of dependence on the metropolitan countries emerged. These were summarized by the term neo‐colonialism, the main characteristics of which are dependence on foreign collaboration for industrialization and chronic foreign exchange difficulties. It is not necessary to go into details of this problem in this paper.