Manufacturing export growth in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand

Southeast Asian Paper Tigers?: From Miracle to Debacle and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 19-80

  Rasiah, Rajah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

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EID: 84917342997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203060407     Document Type: Chapter

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