Economic Growth and Decolonisation in Indonesia
Economic Growth and Decolonisation in Indonesia
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印度尼西亚的经济增长和非殖民化
DOI：
10.1017/s0165115310000070
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发表时间：
2010
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影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
J. Lindblad
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作者：
J. Lindblad
经济学家哈尔·希尔对苏哈托“新秩序”（Orde Baru）政府领导下的印尼经济进行了权威调查，他引用了一些主要发展经济学家的话，这些经济学家对印尼的经济增长前景非常悲观。瑞典诺贝尔奖得主贡纳尔·默达尔（Gunnar Myrdal）给出的负面评价是可以理解的，因为他是在20世纪60年代中期苏加诺的“旧秩序”（Orde Lama）黯然失色的严重经济危机时期写作这篇文章的。更令人惊讶的是本杰明•希金斯（Benjamin Higgins）的结论，众所周知，他创造了印尼的“慢性辍学”一词。20世纪50年代初，希金斯作为世界银行的顾问在印度尼西亚待了很长时间。他的严厉判决（类似于人们常说的“永远的后进生”）是基于他对这个新独立国家的个人观察，还是他的判断也受到了上世纪60年代中期经济近乎崩溃的影响？人们对苏加诺治下印尼经济表现的悲观看法构成了本文的逻辑出发点。
The economist Hal Hill begins his authoritative survey of the Indonesian economy under Soeharto's “New Order” (Orde Baru) government with quotes from leading development economists, who are singularly pessimistic about the prospects for economic growth in Indonesia. A negative assessment such as that given by Swedish Nobel Prize Laureate Gunnar Myrdal is understandable as he was writing at the time of the severe economic crisis accompanying the eclipse of Sukarno's “Old Order” (Orde Lama) in the mid-1960s. More surprising is the verdict of Benjamin Higgins, known to have coined the expression “chronic dropout” for Indonesia. Higgins had spent quite a bit of time in Indonesia in the early 1950s as an advisor from the World Bank. Was his harsh verdict, akin to the oft-heard epithet “perpetual underachiever”, based on his own personal observations in the newly independent nation, or was his judgement also coloured by the near-collapse of the economy in the mid-1960s? The received dismal view of Indonesia's economic performance under Sukarno forms the logical point of departure for this article.