Ramasamy Thillainathan ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2021 ·JEL: R42, O17
The focus of the paper is on toll road privatisation. An overview of the choice of privatisation and the form it took, in promoting the entry of Malays into business, is followed by a review of other studies on privatisation in Malaysia. Gi...
Muhammad Najit Sukemi · Madeline Berma · Shamsul Amri Baharuddin · Faridah Shahdan ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2018
Affirmative action is a mechanism of conflict resolution in situation of ethnic tensions and socio-economic imbalances. In Malaysia, affirmative action was implemented through a New Economic Policy (NEP) from 1970 to address economic imbala...
Lee Hwok Aun ·Asian Economic Policy Review ·2021 ·JEL: D30, D63, I30, J15
The New Economic Policy (NEP) which focused on poverty reduction and social restructuring has transformed Malaysia since 1971. Pro-Bumiputera affirmative action was intensively pursued and has continuously faced pushback, with heightened de...
Muhammed Abdul Khalid · Li Yang ·Journal of Asian Economics ·2021
In this paper, by combining information obtained from national accounts, household surveys, and fiscal data, we document the evolution of income inequality in Malaysia, not only at the national level (for the period of 1984–2014) but also b...