On July 11, 1975 the Finance Minister of Singapore, Hon Sui Sen appointed two solicitors to investigate into the affairs of Haw Par Brothers International Ltd. The company was a Singapore - registered British managed and controlled multinational with substantial interests in Malaysia and Hong Kong. The move by the Singapore authorities arrived in the wake of a take-over tangle involving Malaysian interests. Haw par had announced that agreement had been reached with Pernas Securities Sdn. Bhd....

Discussion on the theme of "Development in the Eighties" requires to be adequately situated in terms of appropriate analytical foundations and through correct identification of the central issues. This paper seeks to provide a background that might aid in that discussion. First, I review some of the facts and figures describing the main contours of the contemporary world economy viewed in broad aggregative terms. One of the central problems that this raises is the question of the causes of th...

The international oil-world has gone through fundamental changes during the last decade. The power of the international companies has declined markedly. A new industrial structure has emerged; a structure which, in many ways, is fundamentally different from the old one. This development has important consequences for all oil-producing states. The world has become much more complicated for these countries. A national oil policy no longer is simply a matter of trying to maximize a host-countrie...

This paper aims at a definition of a self-reliance development strategy viewed for underdeveloped economies (with a special awareness of the danger of generalisation), but only from the viewpoint of the World Economy, leaving aside aspects of self-reliance within the national economy, specially at the level of production units and local communities.