One of the key objectives of the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP) is to implement more development in less developed regions and states, with the aim of dispersing the benefits of growth while narrowing economic disparity among regions. The regional areas mentioned in the 9MP included the east coast and the southern Johor in Peninsular Malaysia,… Continue reading Reducing the Regional Gap
Category: Regional Development
Rethinking Planning in the land of Plans
For a country that produces Plans for financial reform, human resource development, industrial development, capital market reform, automobile industry development and knowledge development, besides, of course, the Outline Perspective Plan and the regular Five-Year Plans, it is time that we reflect on the planning process. Author: Nambiar, Shankaran. Publication: MIERScan, 9 January 2006. Download