Download or read book Foreign Capital and Industrialization in Malaysia written by R. Rasiah and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-04-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines foreign capital's role in stimulating industrialization. Using both conventional and unconventional approaches, the author finds foreign capital to have played a positive role in Malaysia's industrialization. The branch- and industry-level analyses show generally strong pecuniary effects by foreign capital. Local-dominated branches and industries, however, show strong linkages with the domestic economy. The firm-level analysis tends to reveal strong technological spillovers from foreign capital. The book closes with regulatory prescriptions to enhance positive spillovers.
Download or read book Foreign Capital and Industrialization in Malaysia written by Rajah Rasiah and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses historically the emergence and contribution of foreign capital in Malaysia's industrial development. After an extensive review of the extant literature on the development implications of foreign direct investment, the book uses different methodologies to evaluate the contribution of foreign capital to industrialization in the country. One chapter discusses using historical work the significance of foreign capital in the emergence of industrialization in colonial Malaya. The book that examines using Kaldor's increasing returns methodology to examine in aggregate terms the significance of manufacturing FDI in the national economy, and in the individual manufacturing industries using trade ratios, productivity and linkage coefficients. The final two analytical chapters uses a novel snowballing data collection methodology to examine pecuniary and technological spillovers from foreign firms onto local firms.
Download or read book Industrializing Malaysia written by K. S. Jomo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite growing concern over environmental issues and the sustainability of economic growth, industrialization is still generally associated with progress and development. This is particularly true of developing countries where industrialization is often the nation's top priority. Industrializing Malaysia presents a critical analysis of the experience of industrialization in Malaysia, examining the role, impact and efficacy of post-independence industrialization policies. The author refocuses attention on some major intended as well as unintended implications and consequences of policies and performance. A wide range of issues is covered: in addition to general historical commentaries and sectoral studies, there are analyses of direct foreign investment, technology, linkages, free trade zones, industrial estates, and rural development.
Download or read book Malaysian Industrial Policy written by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaysian Industrial Policy argues that selective government promotion efforts have been successful and crucial for Malaysias industrialisation despite some disastrous consequences associated with the Mahathir governments heavy industrialisation programme. The authors present evidence to show that direct and indirect government interventions have induced and supported investments, accelerating the structural transformation of the Malaysian economy. However, industrial development in Malaysia has been modest compared with that in Northeast Asia because of weaknesses in industrial policy andexcessive reliance on foreign investments.
Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment and Industrialisation in Malaysia Singapore Taiwan and Thailand written by Linda Lim and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Malaysia s Industrialization written by Anuwar Ali and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently Malaysia has been dependent on technology transfer through direct foreign investment. In 1986 the Industrial Master Plan was passed. This work examines the objectives of this Plan which highlights the fact that future industrial development must be propelled by domestic technological capabilities. The book also explores strategic options for public and private interaction in development.
Download or read book Industrialization in Malaysia written by Edward Lawrence Wheelwright and published by [Melbourne] Melbourne University Press [1965]. This book was released on 1965 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaysia. Industrialization, with information on occupational structure and unemployment. Economic development is stressed. Industrial policy assessed. Production of industries, with detailed list of industrial products. Problems connected with fiscal policy and tariffs. Foreign investment and banks.
Download or read book Industrialization Policies and Regional Economic Development in Malaysia written by Dean Spinanger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Spinanger examines the post-independence industrialization strategies for Peninsular Malaysia, and traces their evolution from straightforward encouragement of foreign investment to more sophisticated attempts to target backward areas.
Download or read book Technology Competitiveness and the State written by Greg Felker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-05-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, and its companion, Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development. The focus is on role played by state-sponsored innovation in the process economic development and in the context of national development st
Download or read book Foreign Manufacturing Investments in Resource based Industries written by Mohd. Ismail Ahmad and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1990 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of resource-based industries has featured importantly in the industrialization strategies of both Malaysia and Thailand and there is considerable potential for the further expansion of the industries. This study provides some background details of the Malaysian and Thai economies and examines some of the features of resource-based industries and their current status in the two countries.
Download or read book The Role of International Trade and Industrialization in Economic Growth in Developing Countries written by Seyed Ali Ahmadi and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capital Flows and Industrialisation written by Zeti Akhtar Aziz and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Investment and Industrialization in Indonesia written by Hal Hill and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the New Order government after 1967, this study provides a thorough examination of foreign investment in the industrialization of Indonesia and its impact on local and regional economic development.
Download or read book Foreign Investment in Malaysia Experience and Prospects written by V. Kanapathy and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historical Development of Foreign Investment in the Formation of the Malaysian Economy Colonial Period Post Independence written by Uqbah Iqbal and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject History - Asia, National University of Malaysia, course: History, language: English, abstract: The development of the Malaysian economy currently inherited from the previous three levels, beginning with the level of growth and rapid development of the natural resources industry, especially tin and rubber starting from the mid 19th century until the year 1914, followed by a period of volatility or instability of the natural resources industry in the period between the First and Second World War and last but not least the level of consolidation and rationalisation of the natural resources industry together with a diversified economy after 1945. For the purposes of smoothness and consistency in understanding the history of foreign investment during the British colonial and Malaysian post colonial periods, the history of foreign investment in Malaya will be analyzed in advance. The background of the study will focus on Malaya since the formation of its economy is the cord to the formation of the Malaysian economy. However, the contribution of Sabah dan Sarawak economic development in the formation of Malaysia's economy could not be denied.
Download or read book Transformation with Industrialization in Peninsular Malaysia written by H. C. Brookfield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers mainly the period from 1970 to 1989.
Download or read book Foreign Investment and Industrialisation in Singapore written by Poh Seng You and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
