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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