Foreign Investment in Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century

This monograph is the first book-length study of foreign direct investment in Southeast Asia during both the late colonial period and the contemporary period. Lindblad studies the leading Southeast Asian countries receiving foreign investment in this century. Pioneering under the protective umbrella of European colonialism is examined and examples are provided from French Indochina, British Malaya, Dutch Indonesia and the Philippines under American rule. The arrival of todays Asian investors, from Japan and the four Asian NICs, is described after a brief discussion of the transitional period of warfare, decolonization and the assertion of newly independent states. Special attention is given to the impact of foreign investment on the economic development of the host country.
          
           Published by Macmillan Press, for distribution by ISEAS.