Malaysia- Policies & Issues in Economic Development

This book provides some answers to these intriguing questions. Chapters in the book trace landmark achievements, and the present challenges and pitfalls faced by the nation over the last five decades after Independence. More important, the book is a reminder of the role and contributions of various players and protagonists to the developmental process. It focuses on those individuals, committees, agencies, institutions and organizations in the private and public sectors, and in the research and academic community that helped conceptualize, fashion and implement diverse strategies, policies and plans with different degrees of success, but with one common objective - that of economic development for Malaysia.