Author: Muhammed Abdul Khalid Publisher: ISBN: 9789674152147 Category : Equality Languages : en Pages : 249
Book Description
"This book provides an alternative insight to the debate on inequality in Malaysia, by focusing on the distribution of wealth or assets, rather than income. Despite tremendous increase in national income, the wealth gap in Malaysia is alarmingly high and extremely skewed. For instance, the top 0.2 per cent of depositors in ASB has about 1,133 times more than the bottom 80 per cent of depositors combined. This gap is echoed by the fact that approximately two-thirds of Malaysian workers earn less than RM3,000 per month, and about 90 per cent of Malaysians have nearly zero savings. The current policies are not facilitating improvements in this wealth gap, which could lead to aristocracy where birth, not hard work or talent and effort, matter the most in wealth accumulation. This book explores possible policy interventions that can be undertaken to ensure that economic growth is equitably shared, which is vital for a stable and prosperous society"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Sudhir Anand Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 396
Book Description
A sophisticated account of income equalities and poverty in Malaysia which will be of particular interest to policy makers. A range of issues is covered -- from data problems to conceptural questions arising with respect to measurement.
Author: Charles Hirschman Publisher: Washington : American Sociological Association ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 136
Book Description
Monograph on the role of ethnic factors in social stratification in peninsular Malaysia - describes interethnic relations, Malaysian society, the social integration process, intergenerational occupational change, etc., and includes a life cycle model, and occupational and income attainments. Bibliography pp. 107 to 115, references and statistical tables.
Author: Shireen Mardziah Hashim Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780847688586 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 282
Book Description
This thorough analysis of Malaysia's economic expansion evaluates the success of the government's New Economic Policy (NEP), which was designed to promote national unity by reducing poverty as well as by loosening the link between ethnicity and economic function. The first comprehensive analysis of income distribution trends after the inauguration of the NEP, the study also considers interethnic, urban-rural, and regional variations over time. Although there have been significant reductions in poverty and income inequality, Hashim uses previously unpublished data to show that both are still rampant.
Author: Kwen Fee Lian Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047409469 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
This publication brings together the work of several writers in documenting and understanding the consequences of state-formation on ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore, thirty years after the two nations went their separate paths.
Author: Patcharawalai Wongboonsin Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004384332 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
Care Relations in Southeast Asia: The Family and Beyond, edited by Patcharawalai Wongboonsin and Jo-Pei Tan, examines the care relations and transactions within and beyond the family network across three middle-income Southeast Asian countries, namely the Federation of Malaysia, the Kingdom of Thailand and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the national and sub-national level. On the national level, changes and continuity in care relations along the changing demographic, socio-economic and political contexts of each country are addressed. On the sub-national level, the complex dimensions of care relations are analyzed by looking at the attitude towards and practice of elderly and child care within, between and beyond the family system. These regional analyses are based on merged data of three most recent family surveys in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok Metropolis, and Hanoi. Alternative and innovative policy recommendations for current and future challenges are also offered. Contains contributions by: Asmidawati Ashari, Ki Soo Eun, Tengku Aizan Hamid, Rahimah Ibrahim, Thuttai Keeratipongpaiboon, Nguyen Huu Minh, Pataporn Sukontamarn, Jo-Pei Tan, Tran Thi Minh Thi, Kua Wongboonsin and Patcharawalai Wongboonsin
Author: Muhammed Abdul Khalid
Author: Just Faaland
Author: Sudhir Anand
Author: Charles Hirschman
Author: Maznah Mohamad
Author: Shireen Mardziah Hashim
Author: V. Selvaratnam
Author: Kwen Fee Lian
Author: Patcharawalai Wongboonsin
Author: Hock Guan Lee