Author: Jomo K S
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000308197
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In this first critical, multidisciplinary assessment of recent privatization in a developing country, the contributors offer valuable lessons for the comparative study of denationalization and related public policy options. After an introductory survey, the volume presents broad perspectives on the context, formulation, and adjustment of privatization policy in Malaysia. The contributors review the distributional implications of specific privatizations for the public interest as well as for consumer and employee welfare. The book concludes with an examination of the economic, political, and cultural impacts of the privatization of physical infrastructure, telecommunications, and television programming.
Privatizing Malaysia
Author: Jomo K S
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000308197
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In this first critical, multidisciplinary assessment of recent privatization in a developing country, the contributors offer valuable lessons for the comparative study of denationalization and related public policy options. After an introductory survey, the volume presents broad perspectives on the context, formulation, and adjustment of privatization policy in Malaysia. The contributors review the distributional implications of specific privatizations for the public interest as well as for consumer and employee welfare. The book concludes with an examination of the economic, political, and cultural impacts of the privatization of physical infrastructure, telecommunications, and television programming.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000308197
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In this first critical, multidisciplinary assessment of recent privatization in a developing country, the contributors offer valuable lessons for the comparative study of denationalization and related public policy options. After an introductory survey, the volume presents broad perspectives on the context, formulation, and adjustment of privatization policy in Malaysia. The contributors review the distributional implications of specific privatizations for the public interest as well as for consumer and employee welfare. The book concludes with an examination of the economic, political, and cultural impacts of the privatization of physical infrastructure, telecommunications, and television programming.
Privatization in Malaysia
Author: Jeff Tan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134089155
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This book explores privatization in Malaysia, focusing in particular on how political constraints resulted in the failure of four major privatizations: the national sewerage company (IWK), Kuala Lumpur Light Rail Transit (LRT), national airline (MAS), and national car company (Proton).
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134089155
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This book explores privatization in Malaysia, focusing in particular on how political constraints resulted in the failure of four major privatizations: the national sewerage company (IWK), Kuala Lumpur Light Rail Transit (LRT), national airline (MAS), and national car company (Proton).
Who Benefits from Privatisation?
Author: Moazzem Hossain
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134693885
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This edited collection examines the impact of privatisation and the lessons to be learnt from it for the purpose of regulatory reform. The contributors analyse the benefits and losses of privatisation in a variety of countries from economic, legal and consumer perspectives and address fundamental questions such as whether private ownership necessarily leads to better incentives for management and productivity. The book contains illustrative case studies of the Australian telecommunications industry, the deregulation of the Swedish taxi and postal industries, Californian telecommunications industries as well as discussing consumer responses to the privatisation of key utilities in the UK. The impact of privatisation in developing nations is also addressed, with particular reference to India and Malaysia.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134693885
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This edited collection examines the impact of privatisation and the lessons to be learnt from it for the purpose of regulatory reform. The contributors analyse the benefits and losses of privatisation in a variety of countries from economic, legal and consumer perspectives and address fundamental questions such as whether private ownership necessarily leads to better incentives for management and productivity. The book contains illustrative case studies of the Australian telecommunications industry, the deregulation of the Swedish taxi and postal industries, Californian telecommunications industries as well as discussing consumer responses to the privatisation of key utilities in the UK. The impact of privatisation in developing nations is also addressed, with particular reference to India and Malaysia.
Public Management and Governance in Malaysia
Author: Noore Alam Siddiquee
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415504287
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The past two and a half decades have seen major transformations in public sector management and governance across the globe. This book examines the ways public sector management and governance in Malaysia has changed and is changing under contemporary reform models. Chapters are written by well-established scholars and academics with intimate knowledge in their respective fields, and provide a thorough and insightful analysis of the reform trends and developments on a range of topics. These include performance management, compensation reforms, public budgeting, accounting and reporting, privatisation and public-private partnership, e-government, managing ethics and accountability, local government and inter-governmental relations. While the book surveys the topics that are central to public sector management and governance, it also focuses on the nature of reforms and changes that were introduced, as well as the forces that have shaped their design and implementation process, and the initial impacts and results. Overall, the book provides students and scholars of Politics and Southeast Asian Studies with a greater appreciation and deeper understanding of the recent developments and current trends of public sector management.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415504287
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The past two and a half decades have seen major transformations in public sector management and governance across the globe. This book examines the ways public sector management and governance in Malaysia has changed and is changing under contemporary reform models. Chapters are written by well-established scholars and academics with intimate knowledge in their respective fields, and provide a thorough and insightful analysis of the reform trends and developments on a range of topics. These include performance management, compensation reforms, public budgeting, accounting and reporting, privatisation and public-private partnership, e-government, managing ethics and accountability, local government and inter-governmental relations. While the book surveys the topics that are central to public sector management and governance, it also focuses on the nature of reforms and changes that were introduced, as well as the forces that have shaped their design and implementation process, and the initial impacts and results. Overall, the book provides students and scholars of Politics and Southeast Asian Studies with a greater appreciation and deeper understanding of the recent developments and current trends of public sector management.
Privatized Statism and Ethnic Capitalism in Malaysia
Author: Andrew Chinpeng Ho
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Theories of the developmental state assume astute bureaucratic interventionism protected from organized societal interests by authoritarian regimes; close bureaucracy-business ties supposedly facilitate prescient policy-making. In Malaysia, the bureaucracy did feature prominently in developmental policy-making, in an alliance with the political leadership in the seventies. Legitimated by a state ideology of ethnicity, this alliance created a Malay middle class through a legal, open, and centralized system of rents distribution to the Malay majority. In addition, ethnic quotas ensured extensive Malay participation in Corporate Malaysia and in the largest state-owned enterprise program outside the centrally-planned economies. This process also began the atrophy of ethnic Chinese capital. From the mid-eighties, through a carefully targeted program of privatization that divested state- and party-holdings of equity to co-ethnic proxies, the political leadership insinuated itself into the market. In the process, it sidelined the bureaucracy, forming an alliance with a consolidated Malay big business class instead. While proxies legally own these privatized entities, ultimate control inheres with the political leadership. However, day-to-day corporate life is not subject to the politician's micro-management. Thus, the political leadership has been able to bypass bureaucratic structures without relinquishing its control of the economy. While the bureaucracy prefers more regulation, policy controls, and state planning, the politician-businessman alliance is determined to negotiate these constraints. Because these corporations are subject to market discipline, this . privatized statism" tracks market structural changes; the ethnic capitalism so wrought has proven robust despite expectations of an enervating cronyist dissipation of rents. Mainstream developmentalist perspectives fail to anticipate the creation of an ethnic bourgeoisie, the intentional withering of a contending ethnic fraction of domestic capital and, crucially, the bureaucracy's role-inversion. Bureaucratic capacity cannot be assumed to define fully state power. To explain how the state structures domestic markets, state capacity must be characterized empirically by attending to historically determined coalitions and conflicts. Privatized statism also suggests a new mix of property regimes, and implies that each system of economic arrangements is historically constructed with resources and within contexts bequeathed from the past. But that endeavor is always constrained by politics; that is, markets are shaped by considerations of, not only, economic efficiency but, also, political power
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Theories of the developmental state assume astute bureaucratic interventionism protected from organized societal interests by authoritarian regimes; close bureaucracy-business ties supposedly facilitate prescient policy-making. In Malaysia, the bureaucracy did feature prominently in developmental policy-making, in an alliance with the political leadership in the seventies. Legitimated by a state ideology of ethnicity, this alliance created a Malay middle class through a legal, open, and centralized system of rents distribution to the Malay majority. In addition, ethnic quotas ensured extensive Malay participation in Corporate Malaysia and in the largest state-owned enterprise program outside the centrally-planned economies. This process also began the atrophy of ethnic Chinese capital. From the mid-eighties, through a carefully targeted program of privatization that divested state- and party-holdings of equity to co-ethnic proxies, the political leadership insinuated itself into the market. In the process, it sidelined the bureaucracy, forming an alliance with a consolidated Malay big business class instead. While proxies legally own these privatized entities, ultimate control inheres with the political leadership. However, day-to-day corporate life is not subject to the politician's micro-management. Thus, the political leadership has been able to bypass bureaucratic structures without relinquishing its control of the economy. While the bureaucracy prefers more regulation, policy controls, and state planning, the politician-businessman alliance is determined to negotiate these constraints. Because these corporations are subject to market discipline, this . privatized statism" tracks market structural changes; the ethnic capitalism so wrought has proven robust despite expectations of an enervating cronyist dissipation of rents. Mainstream developmentalist perspectives fail to anticipate the creation of an ethnic bourgeoisie, the intentional withering of a contending ethnic fraction of domestic capital and, crucially, the bureaucracy's role-inversion. Bureaucratic capacity cannot be assumed to define fully state power. To explain how the state structures domestic markets, state capacity must be characterized empirically by attending to historically determined coalitions and conflicts. Privatized statism also suggests a new mix of property regimes, and implies that each system of economic arrangements is historically constructed with resources and within contexts bequeathed from the past. But that endeavor is always constrained by politics; that is, markets are shaped by considerations of, not only, economic efficiency but, also, political power
Health Care in Malaysia
Author: Heng Leng Chee
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134112955
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing issues it faces today. It includes coverage of: the evolution of the system since independence, from the colonial legacy of national provision bequeathed from the British to the impact of the global ideological shift against statism in the 1980s considers the responses of the Malaysian state and government policy issues such as equity of provision, women's access to health care, HIV-AIDS health care, care for the elderly. The book offers a detailed examination of the changing face of health care in Malaysia, and its impact on Malaysian citizens, users and society.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134112955
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing issues it faces today. It includes coverage of: the evolution of the system since independence, from the colonial legacy of national provision bequeathed from the British to the impact of the global ideological shift against statism in the 1980s considers the responses of the Malaysian state and government policy issues such as equity of provision, women's access to health care, HIV-AIDS health care, care for the elderly. The book offers a detailed examination of the changing face of health care in Malaysia, and its impact on Malaysian citizens, users and society.
Policy Regimes and the Political Economy of Poverty Reduction in Malaysia
Author: B. Khoo
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137267011
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Malaysia's 40-year strategy of 'poverty eradication' has met with a great deal of success, yet has caused controversy for its links to ethnically-oriented social restructuring. This book is a critical evaluation of changing policy regimes affecting Malaysia's development, record of industrialization, and efficacy in adapting social policies.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137267011
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Malaysia's 40-year strategy of 'poverty eradication' has met with a great deal of success, yet has caused controversy for its links to ethnically-oriented social restructuring. This book is a critical evaluation of changing policy regimes affecting Malaysia's development, record of industrialization, and efficacy in adapting social policies.
Emerging Governance and Economic Issues in Construction Industry in Malaysia (Penerbit USM)
Author: Omar Osman
Publisher: Penerbit USM
ISBN: 9838617504
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The future of construction industry in a globalized, borderless, technology-driven decade is based upon a number of drivers. The book is written to provide a platform for analysis of the construction industry on some governance and economic issues deemed important and can affect the way construction industry will develop and grow in a particular country, particularly Malaysia. The reference to Malaysia may be similar to some but not all countries. The topics covered include governance, role of state and international organizations, innovations, markets and privatizations as well as sustainability. The book should be a basis for future works or research in some of the areas discussed and should provide a specific reading for students at postgraduate and undergraduate levels. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
Publisher: Penerbit USM
ISBN: 9838617504
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The future of construction industry in a globalized, borderless, technology-driven decade is based upon a number of drivers. The book is written to provide a platform for analysis of the construction industry on some governance and economic issues deemed important and can affect the way construction industry will develop and grow in a particular country, particularly Malaysia. The reference to Malaysia may be similar to some but not all countries. The topics covered include governance, role of state and international organizations, innovations, markets and privatizations as well as sustainability. The book should be a basis for future works or research in some of the areas discussed and should provide a specific reading for students at postgraduate and undergraduate levels. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
Malaysia Business Law Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Laws
Author: IBP, Inc
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1438770405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1438770405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Privatizing the Public University
Author: Christopher C. Morphew
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801891647
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
With public colleges and universities facing substantial budget cuts and increased calls for accountability, more institutions now rely on private revenue streams for support. As market-driven policies and behaviors become more commonplace, some cautious critics sound the alarm, while others watching the bottom line cheer. But which perspective gets it right? Does the privatization of public higher education threaten its very mission or support it? In this collection of essays, economists, policy makers, political scientists, sociologists, and organizational researchers discuss the impact of privatization from their respective disciplinary perspectives and assess its implications for the future of higher education. Privatization may bring additional funds and services that are free from government regulations and oversight, but does it also allow private interests to have undue influence over public higher education? Should public universities have to compete in the economic marketplace as vigorously as they do in the marketplace of ideas? What are the implications when institutions of higher learning function like businesses? With privatization now a reality for most public colleges and universities, an objective examination of the issue from these diverse academic perspectives will be welcomed by those struggling with its challenges.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801891647
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
With public colleges and universities facing substantial budget cuts and increased calls for accountability, more institutions now rely on private revenue streams for support. As market-driven policies and behaviors become more commonplace, some cautious critics sound the alarm, while others watching the bottom line cheer. But which perspective gets it right? Does the privatization of public higher education threaten its very mission or support it? In this collection of essays, economists, policy makers, political scientists, sociologists, and organizational researchers discuss the impact of privatization from their respective disciplinary perspectives and assess its implications for the future of higher education. Privatization may bring additional funds and services that are free from government regulations and oversight, but does it also allow private interests to have undue influence over public higher education? Should public universities have to compete in the economic marketplace as vigorously as they do in the marketplace of ideas? What are the implications when institutions of higher learning function like businesses? With privatization now a reality for most public colleges and universities, an objective examination of the issue from these diverse academic perspectives will be welcomed by those struggling with its challenges.