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Record Nr.

UNINA9910743339103321

Titolo

Malaysia’s Leap Into the Future : The Building Blocks Towards Balanced Development / / edited by Rajah Rasiah, Kamal Salih, Cheong Kee Cheok

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

981-16-7044-7

981-16-7045-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 pages)

Collana

Dynamics of Asian Development, , 2198-9931

Disciplina

304.6

Soggetti

Demography

Population

Urban policy

Medical care

Economics

Population and Demography

Urban Policy

Health Care

Political Economy and Economic Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Explaining Malaysia’s Economic Growth -- Chapter 3. Population and Demography -- Chapter 4. Agriculture and Food Security -- Chapter 5. Manufacturing Transformation -- Chapter 6. Knowledge-based Services -- Chapter 7. Education -- Chapter 8. Talent and Human capital -- Chapter 9. Financing Development -- Chapter 10. Future of Labour -- Chapter 11. Poverty and Inequality -- Chapter 12. Urbanization and Infrastructure -- Chapter 13. Natural Environment -- Chapter 14. Healthcare and Well Being.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the future development of Malaysia. It puts together building blocks to achieve a better future. These blocks are poverty and income inequality, population, demography and urbanization, growth



and technological progress, education, human capital and skills, finance, labor, the environment, and health care. It examines the reasons for the decline in the agricultural sector with an emphasis on food security. It discusses Malaysia’s economic growth and structural change compared to some of the Northeast East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. It explains the projections of population and demographic change and its bearing on government policies. It evaluates the country’s education sector and discusses the strategies to improve its role in the country further. It argues for replacing ethnic-based approaches with a needs-based system for the future direction to build a plural Malaysia. This insightful book is of interest across several fields, including demography, economic development, and urbanization.