Part of SIRD’s Malaysian Studies Series, Toh Kin Woon’s Malaysia’s New Economic Policy in Its First Decade: The Role of the State in Economic Development, 1971-1980 revisits the beginnings of the controversial social re-engineering programme implemented in the wake of the May 13, 1969 riots.

Toh’s book focuses on the restructuring of employment and corporate ownership, and approaches to poverty eradication, and argues that what underlay the NEP was a certain relationship between class and state to usher in a new Malay bureaucratic capitalist class.

Malaysia’s New Economic Policy in Its First Decade: The Role of the State in Economic Development, 1971-1980 is available for purchase on the Gerakbudaya site.

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Malaysia’s New Economic Policy in Its First Decade: The Role of the State in Economic Development, 1971-1980

Toh Kin Woon
SIRD
2024