The Impact of Global Economic Crisis on the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry

Global economic crisis particularly the recent one started in year 2007, had impacted the global financial system badly seeing financial institutions closing down, which eventually affected the world economy negatively, with countries such as Iceland, falling into bankruptcy. During this global econ...

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Main Author: Wo, Chin Yong
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/24642/
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description Global economic crisis particularly the recent one started in year 2007, had impacted the global financial system badly seeing financial institutions closing down, which eventually affected the world economy negatively, with countries such as Iceland, falling into bankruptcy. During this global economy downturn, we saw many businesses went into predicament. Although the Malaysian economy was not affected too badly by this global economy crisis, being one of the important pillars of the Malaysian economy, the palm oil industry seemed to have sustained the crisis and performed well. In fact, how much did the global economy crisis impacted on this industry? In this paper, we are going to have an in-depth research and understanding of the palm oil industry as well as the recent credit crunch. We will explore the role and contributions of palm oil industry to the Malaysian economy, and analyse the performance of the Malaysian palm oil sectors during and post-crisis. This paper will then be concluded with some of the challenges identified and need to be resolved in order for the industry to excel further not only in the Malaysian market but also the other palm oil producing countries around the world.
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spelling nottingham-246422018-01-30T16:46:06Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/24642/ The Impact of Global Economic Crisis on the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry Wo, Chin Yong Global economic crisis particularly the recent one started in year 2007, had impacted the global financial system badly seeing financial institutions closing down, which eventually affected the world economy negatively, with countries such as Iceland, falling into bankruptcy. During this global economy downturn, we saw many businesses went into predicament. Although the Malaysian economy was not affected too badly by this global economy crisis, being one of the important pillars of the Malaysian economy, the palm oil industry seemed to have sustained the crisis and performed well. In fact, how much did the global economy crisis impacted on this industry? In this paper, we are going to have an in-depth research and understanding of the palm oil industry as well as the recent credit crunch. We will explore the role and contributions of palm oil industry to the Malaysian economy, and analyse the performance of the Malaysian palm oil sectors during and post-crisis. This paper will then be concluded with some of the challenges identified and need to be resolved in order for the industry to excel further not only in the Malaysian market but also the other palm oil producing countries around the world. 2010 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/24642/1/ChinYongWo.pdf Wo, Chin Yong (2010) The Impact of Global Economic Crisis on the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)
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The Impact of Global Economic Crisis on the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry
title The Impact of Global Economic Crisis on the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry
title_full The Impact of Global Economic Crisis on the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry
title_fullStr The Impact of Global Economic Crisis on the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry
title_full_unstemmed The Impact of Global Economic Crisis on the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry
title_short The Impact of Global Economic Crisis on the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry
title_sort impact of global economic crisis on the malaysian palm oil industry
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/24642/