What is financial liberalisation?
Learn more about financial reforms and deregulation of banking sectors to understand its impacts of Southeast Asian economies.
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What is industrialisation?
Learn the concepts of import-substitution and export-oriented industrialisation to understand economic development in Southeast Asian states.
What is Rukun Negara?
Examine the significance of Rukun Negara, which means National Principles, to understand the national ideology of Malaysia.
What is GATT and its purpose?
Learn more about GATT to understand the role of a multilateral trading system in shaping the global economy.
What is the difference between the World Bank and the IMF?
Distinguish between the roles of the World Bank and the IMF, which were known as the pillars of the Bretton Woods system.
What is the Green Revolution?
Learn more about the Green Revolution that transformed the agricultural sectors of independent Southeast Asian states in the 1960s.
What is OPEC?
Learn more about the history of OPEC to understand its role in causing the energy crisis of the 1970s.
What were the twin deficits of USA?
Learn more about the twin deficits that hampered the economic development of USA.
What caused Japan’s economic miracle?
Learn more about the rapid economic transformation of Japan after World War Two.
What happened at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944?
Find out how the Bretton Woods system was established in the post-WWII period to understand its impact on the global economy.