Authors: Kwame Sundaram Jomo (Editor), Jomo
ISBN-13: 9780415096478, ISBN-10: 0415096472
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: September 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This timely volume presents a critical analysis of the industrialization process in Malaysia, which has one of the fastest growing economies in Asia. Since 1987, Malaysia has experienced a sustained economic boom based on export-oriented manufacturing. The essays in Industrializing Malaysia consider Malaysia's experiences with foreign investment, technology transfers, free trade zones, industrial linkages, and labor flexibility in the manufacturing sector. The volume includes case studies of the Malaysian automobile, electronics, and textile industries.
Despite growing concerns over environmental damage and the sustainability of economic growth, many developing countries continue to associate industrialization with progress. By focusing on Malaysian industrialization, the essays in this volume assess the strengths and weaknesses of such an approach. The contributors, most of whom have served as consultants to the Malaysian government, suggest policy changes that would ensure more balanced, coherent, equitable, and sustainable industrialization under national auspices.
Contributors: Jomo K. S., Chris Edwards, Guy Standing, Anuwar Ali, Wong Poh Kam, Rajah Rasiah, Leslie O'Brien, Ashwani Saith, Anuwar Ali, David C. O'Connor, and S. Jayasankaran.
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Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Malaysian Industrialisation in Historical Perspective | 14 |
2 | Labour Flexibility in the Malaysian Manufacturing Sector | 40 |
3 | Direct Foreign Investment in the Malaysian Industrial Sector | 77 |
4 | Free Trade Zones and Industrial Development in Malaysia | 118 |
5 | Malaysian Manufacturing Sector Linkages | 147 |
6 | Malaysian Rural Industrialisation Strategies in National Perspective | 163 |
7 | Technology Transfer in the Malaysian Manufacturing Sector: Basic Issues and Future Directions | 190 |
8 | Electronics and Industrialisation: Approaching the 21st Century | 210 |
9 | Textiles and Clothing: Sunrise or Sunset Industry? | 234 |
10 | Made-In-Malaysia: The Proton Project | 272 |
11 | Prospects for Malaysian Industrialisation in Light of East Asian Nic Experiences | 286 |
12 | State Intervention and Industrialisation in South Korea: Lessons for Malaysia | 302 |
13 | Policy Options for Malaysian Industrialisation | 316 |
Statistical Appendix | 335 | |
Bibliography of unpublished official sources | 341 | |
Index | 343 |