Malaysia's Socio-Economic Transformation Ideas for the Next Decade

• Other Authors: Basu Das, Sanchita (Editor), Lee, Poh Onn (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.; Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2014
• Subjects: Socio-economic; Malaysia > Economic conditions.; Malaysia > Economic policy.; Malaysia > Social conditions.; Malaysia > Social policy.; Malaysia > Politics and government.
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Presents a policy-oriented stocktake and evaluation by academics, policy-makers, and business people on Malaysia's achievements, present work-in-progress endeavours, and some of the future challenges facing the nation in its pursuit to achieve a developed high-income country status

Table of Contents:

• The economy of Malaysia: present, problems, prospects
• Malaysia's economic development and transformation: looking back, looking forward
• Malaysia's route to middle income status
• harnessing services for development in Malaysia
• productivity led growth
• Malaysia's investment Malaise: what happened and can it be fixed?
• infrastructure in Malaysia: investment, growth and policy challenges
• financial reforms in Malaysia
• ICT in Malaysia's growth agenda
• Malaysia's participation in the ASEAN Economic Community
• prisons to mind in Malaysia's nation building
• Malaysia's federal system: shifling local initiative?
• the environment
• Malaysia's education, off course: heady growth systemic woes, small fixes
• growth and change in financing Malaysian higher education
• income inequality: a drag on being developed nation?
• migrant workers in Malaysia: a much needed labour source
• growth and liveability: the case of greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.