Snippets - economic malaysia books

by **Cals** Mon 11 Nov 2013, 00:12

Published: Saturday November 9, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Saturday November 9, 2013 MYT 7:28:01 AM
Snippets

THE snippets today highlight four rather academic titles with a slant on economic history, thick in numbers and technical analysis.
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Under its Routledge Revival series, Taylor & Francis’ offerings include The Malaysian Economy: Spatial Perspectives by George Cho, an analytical and academic study of the country’s economic development and success since independence in 1957 right until the 1980s. First published in 1990 and again in 2011 in UK, it went to print simultaneously in the United States.
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Under its Malaysian Studies series, there is Malaysia’s Development Challenges: Graduating from the middle which examines the various economic, political and developmental policy challenges facing the country as it shifts from a middle-income to high-income economy. This issue is of interest to academics, policy-makers and development practitioners in the developing world, particularly in middle-income economies.

It is a compilation of works from 18 writers-cum-academicians and researchers and its form took shape in December 2008 when Hal Hill was a visiting professor at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies. He himself contributed the first chapter Malaysian Economic Development: Looking back and forward.
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The third title Chinese Business in Malaysia: Accumulation, ascendance, accommodation by Terence Gomez is part of Routledge’s Chinese Worlds series. It examines the dominant role of Chinese capital in the economy with in-depth empirical research on its mode of development and styles of operation.
The latest in our focus on Malaysia’s economic history is Malaysia@50: Economic development, distribution and disparities by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Wee Chong Hui. The authors touch on the changes in development policy in response to national and international developments, the influence of public policy on economic distribution, public finance and economic federalism. There is also the familiar focus on ethnic disparities, regional and other distribution issues. There is also a discussion on government taxation and spending.
Jomo is assistant director-general at the Economic and Social Development Department of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome. Wee is an economics lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Mara Sarawak.

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Jomo is of the view that the way forward requires greater sensitivity to the complex political economy of Malaysia’s unlikely, but resilient federation and ruling coalition.