Restructuring the Malaysian Economy: Development and Human Resources

✍ Scribed by Robert E. B. Lucas, Donald Verry (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 332
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An authoritative study of the Malaysian economy and labour market. Malaysia has enjoyed an enviable growth record over twenty-five years which few nations can match, and has also been keen to judge her performance against non-growth criteria of poverty eradication and national unity following the emergence of racial conflict in 1969. There are many lessons for policy-makers elsewhere of this active approach to poverty eradication and social restructuring while generating rapid growth, which stands in sharp contrast to laissez-faire orthodoxy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
National Economic Trends....Pages 5-23
A Profile of the Malaysian Labour Markets....Pages 25-92
The Malaysian Education and Training Systems....Pages 93-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Agriculture and the Rural Sector....Pages 145-177
Manufacturing....Pages 179-204
Services....Pages 205-223
The Public Sector....Pages 225-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
The Short Run: The Rise and Decline of Unemployment....Pages 241-261
The Medium Run: Costs and International Competitiveness....Pages 263-286
The Long Run: Human Resource Development....Pages 287-309
Summing up....Pages 311-314
Back Matter....Pages 315-328

✦ Subjects

Development Economics;Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics