Category: NEP

This study argues that in order to appreciably improve analyses from the developmental state perspective, it is necessary to consider applying the concepts from another body of literature, that of business history, specifically those based on the work of Alfred Chandler.3 Both these sets of literature have never been employed in conjunction with each other,… Continue reading Corporate Malaysia in Historical Perspective

Authors: Fang, Han-ming & Norman, Peter. Source: International Economic Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, May 2006, p. 361-389. Abstract: We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important to the private sector but not to the public sector. Government regulation allows native majority workers… Continue reading Government Mandated Discriminatory Policies: Theory and Evidence

Authors: Rajah Rasiah & Ishak Shari. Publication: Cambridge Journal of Economics 2001. Abstract: Leading economic institution such as the World Bank have argued that liberalisation holds the key to growth, poverty alleviation and redistribution. Even recent efforts to model increasing returns within the framework of new growth theories have not resulted in prescriptions for stronger… Continue reading Market, Govt and Malaysia NEP

Reported by Hong, Bede & Muhammad Razif. Publication: Malaysiakini, 6 October 2006. Abstract: In this two-part interview, Khalid Ibrahim tells malaysiakini why he join the opposition PKR and why he – who was one of the key promoters of the New Economic Policy – now considers it as a ‘cancer’. Download

Publication: Malaysiakini, 20 October 2006. Introduction: Imagine this. We have hit the 30 percent bumiputera corporate equity ownership target. All ethnic quotas are abolished. Political parties are no longer racially-based. We see ourselves as Malaysians first and everything else, second. Indeed, the impact of a Malaysia minus the New Economic Policy will be nothing short… Continue reading Imagine no NEP

Author: Koon, Yew Yin. Publication: Aliran, 26 January 2007. Abstract: The most indisputable fact is that we were once at par with Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea in 1970 when the NEP was first introduced. Download

NEP will only lead to self-destruction Ahmad Akmal Nov 9, 06 5:49pm I refer to the letter “Economist’s basis of calculation – erroneous”. Well, it seems like that cat is out of the bag. Numbers, as they say, do not lie. Having lived a major part of my life trading commodities here in Chicago, that… Continue reading NEP will only lead to self-destruction

By Lee Hock Guan. Southeast Asian Affairs 2005, The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. Introduction: The prevailing practice of affirmative action typically involves introducing measures to raise the participation of members of an economically disadvantaged group in the areas of education, employment and business, where they had been historically excluded or underrepresented. Measures taken… Continue reading Affirmative Action in Malaysia

By: Graham K. Brown. April 2005. Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. Abstract: This paper examines some of the political problems surrounding the implementation of policies to rectify horizontal inequalities through an examination of probably the most successful such programme followed in a developing country,… Continue reading The politics and practice of education in Malaysia

By: Maznah Mohamad. Working Paper 9 February 2005. Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. Abstract: This paper examines the role of Malaysia’s New Economic Policy (NEP) in contributing to the absence of widespread inter-ethnic violence in the country since 1969. The paper begins by discussing… Continue reading Ethnicity and Inequality in Malaysia: A Retrospect and a Rethinking