Malaysia Economy in the Past
From the early centuries, Malaysia has a long history of internationally valued exports, there are many valuable sources like gold, tin and exotics such as birds’ feathers, edible birds’ nests, aromatic woods, and tree resins and so on. Malaysia is located in a strategic position that was suitable for athwart the seaborne trade routes from the Indian Ocean to East Asia. This caused numerous countries like Arab, Indians and China visited and exchange the goods or merchants with our country. Malacca has become one of the earliest local sultanates as well as a focus point for both domestic and also international trade.
The strategic location was indeed penetrated by European for trading purpose in the early sixteenth century. For instance, Portuguese first came in 1511, followed Dutch East India Company (VOC), then competition with the English East India Company for pepper and various spices trades.
By the late eighteenth century the VOC was dominant in the Indonesian region while the EIC acquired bases in Malaysia, beginning with Penang (1786), Singapore (1819) and Melaka (1824). China was the main country that traded with these EIC. These also served as footholds from which to expand British control into Malay Peninsula (from 1870), and northwest Borneo (Sarawak from 1841 and North Borneo from 1882).
Besides, over these centuries the China’s migrants was increased as there were a lot of opportunities in trade and as a wage labor force for the burgeoning production of export commodities such as gold and tin. The indigenous people remained basically within a subsistence economy and were reluctant to offer themselves as permanent wage labor although they engaged in commercial production (rice, tin), but....
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...e significantly in the early 1970s and late 1990s, both periods coinciding with a pronounced increase in direct and indirect government expenditure in the economy.
Table 3 shows the employment by sector in Malaysia from 1975 to 2003. Employment shares have also changed significantly, albeit not as fast and with a lag. From 1975 to 2000, agriculture’s share of employment fell by more than half, while that of manufacturing rose by about 50%. Manufacturing employment overtook agriculture in the mid 1990s. It is important to note that the differences in sectoral labour productivities in Malaysia are relatively small, under-scoring the undistorted nature of its economy. In particular, manufacturing productivity is only about 50% higher than the economy-wide average, quite low by developing country standards, and reflecting its predominantly labour-intensive character.
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Hairong, Y., (2008) New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China. (Duke University Press; Durham).
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