Currency, Credit and Commerce: Early Growth in Southeast Asia

Abstract

Financing Early Growth: Natural resources versus borrowing in economic development The economic development of British Malaya to 1914: an essay in historiography with some questions for historians The British agency houses in Malaysia: survival in a changing world (with J.H. Drabble) Vent for surplus, the subsistence fund, and the evolution of money. The Provision of Local Money: Southeast Asian monies and the problem of a common measure, with particular reference to the nineteenth century The evolution of money in Singapore since 1819 The working of the Malayan Currency Board and the implications of the currency board system Monetary developments in Malaya and Singapore, 1959-1965 Singapore and Malaysia: the monetary consequences Monetary and exchange rate management in tiny, open underdeveloped economies. Emerging Securities Markets: Securities markets in less-developed countries The new-issue boom in Malaya and Singapore 1961-1964 The development of equity and bond markets in the Pacific region Some reflections on problems affecting securities markets in less-developed countries Bank loans or bonds: some lessons of historical experience (with H.W. Arndt).