Authors:

  • Jeffrey Williamson

Excerpt

From Commodity Booms to Economic Miracles: Why Southeast Asian Industry Lagged Behind. Jeffrey Williamson, May 2015, Paper. "Except for the Philippines between 1896 and 1939, Southeast Asia was never part of the century-long East Asian industrial catching up until after World War II. Before the 1950s, Southeast Asian manufacturing hardly grew at all: while commodity export processing did grow fast, import-competing manufacturing and manufacturing for local consumption did not. Singapore and Thailand started recording catching up growth rates on the western leaders only from the 1950s onwards, and Indonesia and Malaysia joined the club only after 1973..." Link