Malaysia’s favourable ranking in terms of international competitiveness masks its institutional weaknesses. Malaysia should reform its institutions to address these weaknesses to remain competitive. Publication/Conference: MIERScan, 29 October 2007 [Download]
Time for Umno to rise above ethnic politics. By Ooi Kee Beng. [First published in Singapore’s Straits Times on 4 Jan 2005] Download
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
By Ho Khai Leong, the Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore. Policy formulation in Malaysia, like in many Third World countries, is essentially a centrally directed exercise.1 While the formulation process is somewhat open to public opinion and interest group influence, it is nonetheless a relatively autonomous administrative act.2 The comment by a … Read more
Author: Jomo K.S. Published on: Identities, Conflict and Cohesion Programme Paper Number 7 September 2004; United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Summary: Malaysia’s New Economic Policy (NEP) was first announced in 1970 as the principal policy response to the post-election race riots of May 1969, which also resulted in a significant regime change. This … Read more
Author: Mohammed Ariff. Publication/Conference: MIERScan, 14 January 2008 In the Malaysian context, economic growth and income distribution have been the two sides of the same coin. Economic growth is thus crucial for successful affirmative action. The improvements in income distribution, both intra- and inter-ethnic, in the early years of the NEP were attributable in no … Read more
BUM2008 TO PROMOTE CIVIL SOCIETY ON MAY 1 Yes, on the First of May – the Bloggers’ Hap Event of the Year in Malaysia will take place at Lake View Club, Subang Jaya, Selangor. The BUM2008 Organising Committee selected this day to also celebrate Labour Day worldwide in giving recognition to the dignity … Read more
The winds of changeMay 1, 2008 From The Economist print edition Could the opposition take power after 51 years? AS MALAYSIA’S new parliament opened this week, a mood of change was in the air not felt since the country’s independence from Britain in 1957. The governing coalition, led since then by the United Malays National … Read more
New Malaysia parliament opens with rowdy name-callingAFP Thursday, May 1 KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – – The opening session of Malaysia’s new parliament descended into noisy name-calling Wednesday as a newly emboldened opposition took on the government. “Monkey” and “Bigfoot” were two of the epithets hurled in a rowdy session during which lawmakers shouted and gesticulated … Read more