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M Way Mahathir's economic legacy

This introduction to the book M Way reviews Mahathir's economic policy legacy from the early 1980s especially his major innovations in development policy, including the Look East policy, the 70 million population policy, the National Agriculture Policy, heavy industrialization, 'Malaysia I...

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Main Author: Jomo K. S (Jomo Kwame Sundaram) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kuala Lumpur Forum © 2003
Subjects:
Mahathir bin Mohamad > 1925-
Malaysia > Economic policy
Malaysia > social policy
Malaysia > Politics and government
Malaysia > Economic conditions
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Mahathir's Economic Legacy
  • New government policies - Mahathir Mohamad
  • The "Look East" policy
  • "Malaysia Incorporated": State-business corporatism
  • Malaysian Sogoshoshas
  • The second opening of Japan - Mahathir Mohamad-- Labour policies in the eighties
  • The 70 million population policy
  • National agriculture policy, 1984
  • Haevy industrialisation
  • The proton saga
  • The first industrial master plan, 1986-1995
  • East Asian regional cooperation
  • Privatisation for whom?
  • Malaysia's privatisation record
  • UMNO, UEM and the North-South Highway
  • The Tin market fiasco
  • "Bailing out cronies" : from privatisation to re-nationalisation
  • Vision 2020 : the way forward
  • Malaysian investment abroad
  • Economic redistribution
  • Capital flows and crisis
  • Deepening the crisis
  • The 1998 capital controls
  • Why capital controls?-Mahathir Mohamad
  • Did the capital controls work? Anwar versus Mahathir? Bank mergers
  • China challenge

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