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This paper illustrates, with a ten year simulation, possible effects of Malaysia"s national buffer stock for natural rubber on the level and stability of export earnings, export tax revenue, producer income and worm price. Employing rubber market parameters based on inference and empirical tests and buffer stock operating costs and policies similar to those of the current Malaysian buffer stock, it is shown that capital requirements for effective control exceed those at the disposal of the buffer stock manager while control may be expected to stabilize price at the expense of export earnings and producer income stability. These unfavourable effects can be neutralized in part by the increase in receipts obtained with a sufficiently narrow controlled price range or by an increase in demand emanating from reduced price risk. Under the apparent wider range of the buffer stock, losses in export earnings and producer income, as well as capital expenses and the terminal deficit of the stock authority are each less than 1 per cent of export earnings and producer income. The maximum short run capital requirement is about 2.5 per cent of these latter magnitudes. The arguments presented indicate that internationalization of the buffer stock would increase the benefits and decrease the costs in terms of the proportion of producer income and export earnings, compared to the existing national device. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper contrasts the economic performance of a group of immigrant Chinese paddy farmers in West Malaysia with their native Malay counterparts. The situation involves their differing response to the introduction of doublecropping. Productivity measures, production function estimates, and field observations indicate significant differences in performance. The reasons for these differences are attributed to the characteristics of immigrant groups, differences in perception of the innovations, and historical factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Describes the condition of manpower planning and labor markets in West Malaysia during the 1960s. Problems and conditions in employment markets; Implications of insulated markets for manpower and economic policies; Suggestions offered for future employment-creation policies.

Family planning programmes, whether intentionally or not, do by their nature affect the birth rates of populations served. Since the birth rate in the absence of the programmes is not known, it is not possible to determine with certainty the dimensions of their fertility effects. This article presents preliminary results of a continuing study of pre- and post-acceptance natality rates among all new acceptors in the national family planning programme of Malaysia during 1967-1969. To explain the observed results, use has been made of auxiliary data sources. Differences in the fertility of acceptors compared with the general female population are discussed, particularly in terms of differences between these two groups in their age and racial composition. Amongst acceptors, differences in fertility patterns associated with different contraceptive methods accepted are discussed. The limitations inherent in a fertility study covering only three years are recognized, as is the need for continuation and further refinement of the present study.

In the heterogeneous society of the state of Sabah, formerly the British colony of North Borneo and since 1963 a state of Malaysia, the Murut tribe has had a special place. A series of censuses showed that the country's indigenous population as a whole was growing at a slow rate, so that in the year of the most recent count, 1960, the average density of population was no more than 16 persons per square mile--only an eighth of that of Malaya. The decline of the Murut people was a well recognized phenomenon locally, not least by the Muruts themselves. It was investigated from time to time and aroused considerable comment, but no good diagnosis ever resulted, and by 1960 the most recent investigation had petered out in discouragement. Since the thesis that the Murut tribe was dying out and has now recovered is based on the results of censuses, it is necessary to consider how reliable those enumerations were. Is it possible that they were so inaccurate that the one exception to the general pattern of slow but sure growth among the indigenous peoples was no genuine exception but merely the result of poor enumeration?

A representative sample of West Malaysian fourth-order drainage basins classified into six standard groups by cluster analysis, which reduces the degree of subjectivity inherent in earlier methods of landform classification. All pairs of basins in the sample are intercorrelated over five morphometric variables: hypsometrie thtegral average slope, basin relief, drainage density, and basin area. Standard groups consist of basins which correlate significantly with basic pairs, and for which morphometric indices have similar mean values. The drainage basin map reflects the main features of West Malaysian geomorphology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The application of survey research techniques to the study of the internal organization of attitudes has resulted in findings that vary from the results of recent experimental inquiry. The behavioral and affect components of attitudes have exhibited a high correlation for both Chinese and Malay ethnic groups living in George Town, Malaysia. It has not been possible, however, to demonstrate a corresponding relationship between behavior and cognition, nor a consistent arrangement of affect and cognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Looks into economic development in two Asian countries, Ceylon and Malaysia. Facilitation of the formulation of economic policy within countries confronted with formidable developmental problems; Assessment of the potentialities for further development within the territories of the countries; Recommendations for practical measures to promote the economic and social betterment of the populations.