Opium consumption and living standards in Singapore, 1900 to 1939
Opium consumption and living standards in Singapore, 1900 to 1939
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1900 年至 1939 年新加坡的鸦片消费和生活水平
DOI：
10.1017/s0022463423000139
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
0.6
通讯作者：
Sugimoto Ichiro
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文献类型：
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作者：
Choy Keen Meng;Sugimoto Ichiro
关于东南亚鸦片消费的研究迄今没有从经济福利的角度处理这一问题。本文汇集了殖民来源的数据，以推算新加坡在二十世纪头几十年的鸦片消费总量。它表明，将鸦片纳入消费篮子的另一种福利衡量标准导致依赖鸦片工作的非熟练劳动者的生活水平下降。
Studies on opium consumption in Southeast Asia have thus far not addressed the issue from an economic welfare perspective. This article assembles data from colonial sources to derive estimates of aggregate opium consumption in Singapore during the early decades of the twentieth century. It shows that an alternative measure of welfare that includes opium in the consumption basket led to a declining standard of living amongst unskilled labourers who depended on the drug for their work.