Why Didn't Colonial Indonesia have a Competitive Cotton Textile Industry?
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2013
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van der Eng, Pierre
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Cambridge University Press
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Abstract This paper quantifies the consumption and production of cotton textiles at different stages of processing in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial era (1820-1941). It discusses the main factors that impeded the development of an internationally com
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Keywords: colonialism; competitiveness; cotton; industrial production; investment; technological change; textile industry; Indonesia; Gossypium hirsutum
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Modern Asian Studies
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