A dispassionate analysis of the forty years of implementation of the NEP-NDP provides many lessons. These include: There is no alternative to pro-growth policies if Malaysia is to attain the original goals of the NEP, namely eradication of poverty irrespective of race and economic restructuring; pro-growth policies are also essential if the Vision 2020 goals

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The 10th Malaysia Five Year Plan : Old Wine in New Bottles – Part 7 (National Agenda for all Malaysians instead of a mutating NEP)

Equity Restructuring and Ownership The Plan restates that the target of attaining at least 30% Bumiputra corporate equity ownership at macro level remains. It goes on to indicate that the focus will be on promoting genuine economic participation, consistent with the objective of sustainable high growth, rather than corporate equity allocation

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The 10th Malaysia Five Year Plan : Old Wine in New Bottles – Part 6 (Equity Restructuring/Ownership)

Poverty Chapter 4 of the Plan document together with several Tables dealing with Thrust 3 in the Appendices present fairly detailed statistics on poverty and income distribution. In a somewhat self-congratulatory tone, the Plan proclaims that hardcore poverty was reduced from 1.2% in 2004 to 0.7% in 2009 and that the incidence of overall poverty fell

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The 10th Malaysia Five Year Plan : Old Wine in New Bottles – Part 5 (Poverty)

The Five Thrusts of the 10th Malaysia Plan The Prime Minister stressed that the 10th Malaysia Plan is oriented around five key strategic thrusts, namely: * Stimulating Economic Growth – implementing a policy framework that will galvanize the private sector and promote trade and investment; * Moving towards Inclusive Socio-Economic

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The 10th Malaysia Five Year Plan : Old Wine in New Bottles – Part 4 (5 Thrusts of TMP)

An Overview of the Plan The Plan that has been unveiled, when stripped of the rhetoric and clichés, represents nothing more than a reaffirmation and continuation of past and present policies. To begin with, the Plan is built upon a number of highly questionable assumptions

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The 10th Malaysia Five Year Plan : Old Wine in New Bottles – Part 2 (Overview)

by M. Bakri Musa The old Soviet Union may have long ago crumbled, but the underlying mindset – the penchant to control and “plan” everything centrally – still has a tenacious hold, and not just on Russian leaders. Joseph Stalin initiated the

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Old Habits Die Hard With Malaysia’s Five-Year Plans

Twitters “We are on a burning platform.” This dire warning in 10MalaysiaPlan completely absent in Najib’s TMP speech. Is Msia on a “burning platform’? about 5 hours ago via web Other TMP dire warnings Najib swept under carpet “..d proverbial iceberg may b melting”; “Carrying on with the status quo is not an option”

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Tenth Malaysia Plan – how serious is Najib?

by Thomas Lee Seng Hock Mysinchew.com June 13, 2010 Datuk Seri Najib Razak has said that to ensure Malaysia could compete globally, it needs proper implementation, co-ordination and execution. He said that to achieve that, all Malaysians must be united and work together while embracing the 1 Malaysia concept, where people are given priority in any of the government’s

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Grand plan or grand illusion?

By Stephanie Sta Maria | FMT KUALA LUMPUR: The 10th Malaysia Plan (10MP) yesterday came under scrutiny of three economists who lauded its acknowledgment of the country’s stumbling blocks but lamented its initiatives to tackle them. At a dialogue jointly organised by the Malaysian Economic Association and the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Universiti Malaya, the trio

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10MP fails to impress economists

Tweets Prosecutor failed to establish prima facie sedition case against Karpal. He’s free! http://tweetphoto.com/26623554 Friday, June 11, 2010 3:25 PM Great news recd in KB! Sedition charge agnst DAP National Chairman Karpal Singh dismissed by KL High Court – no defence called. Friday, June 11, 2010 3:25 PM Karpal acquitted – AG Gani Patail shd b censured in

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Karpal acquitted of sedition charge – defence not called

by Dr Lim Teck Ghee What financial crisis?’ Readers following the great national debate initiated by Minister Idris Jala in the Prime Minister’s Department on the possibility of the country going bankrupt must be thoroughly confused with the mixed messages from government. On the one hand, we are told that the country is more prosperous than ever before

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Malaysia: A ‘bankrupt’ nation?

Soalan: Sim Tong Him (Kota Melaka) meminta Perdana Menteri menyatakan adakah kedudukan project membaik pulih, menaik taraf, mengubahsuai dan bina baru bangunan Parlimen Malaysia dengan butir-butir kerja-kerja yang akan dilaksanakan, jumlah kos terlibat, tarikh kerja dimulakan dan bilakah projek ini akan dapat siap dibina keseluruhannya.

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New Parliament in Putrajaya

By S Pathmawathy | Malaysiakini Though the newly-appointed Transport Minister Kong Cho Ha has said there is no need to look further into the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) fiasco, opposition veteran Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur) has refused to let the matter go. The DAP veteran politician during the question-and-answer session in the Dewan Rakyat, demanded

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‘When will PKFZ probe be done – Resurrection Day?’

Tweets @limkitsiang: My Q in Parl – progress in MACC campaign agnst ‘grand corruption’ n Y no big fish in PKFZ scandal nabbed? Wednesday, June 09, 2010 10:02 AM But as expected Stonewalling answer saying MACC investigating although I reminded House of AG saying last Dec that more arrests 2come RT @beyondrock Now that is a good

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RM12.5 billion PKFZ scandal – More stonewalling

New fiction by Lisa Moore, Linden MacIntyre, Rawi Hage, Heather O’Neill, Zsuzsi Gartner, Stephen Marche, Michael Winter, Miguel Syjuco, and Madeleine Thien; with poems by David McGimpsey Last year, as we put the… Continue reading this article at http://www.walrusmagazine.com

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Canadian Studies by Various Authors

Does banning alcohol in First Nations communities address the real cause of problem drinking? In 1670, sometime after English settler Daniel Denton encountered aboriginals on Long Island, he wrote, “They are great lovers of strong drink, yet do not care for drinking, unless they have… Continue reading this article at http://www.walrusmagazine.com

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Firewater by Christine Sismondo and Simon Beggs

The peculiar Zen of race car driving The racetrack i’m driving is a five-kilometre, eighteen-turn road course. Looked at another way, it’s just a strip of pavement that covers some arbitrary geography before ending up… Continue reading this article at http://www.walrusmagazine.com

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Meditation at 7,500 RPM by Timothy Taylor

Is our national anthem worthy of true patriot love? When the Conservative government proposed changing a single line of our national anthem this past spring, the outrage was ferocious enough that the idea was shelved in less than forty-eight hours…. Continue reading this article at http://www.walrusmagazine.com

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(N)O Canada! by Stephen Marche

Malaysian Insider By Clara Chooi June 08, 2010 KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today moved to quell fears raised by a minister that Malaysia would one day go the way of Greece and Iceland and become a bankrupt nation. In a written response to a question by Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timor) in

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PM dispels fears of possible bankruptcy

SOALAN: Lim Kit Siang (Ipoh Timur) minta PERDANA MENTERI menyatakan apakah tindakan yang telah diambil untuk memastikan bahawa Malaysia tidak akan mengikut jejak langkah Iceland dan Greece dan menjadi sebuah negara bankrap yang memerlukan penyelamatan dan masyarakat serantau atau antarabangsa. JAWAPAN: Tuan Yang di-Pertua, Untuk makluman Yang Berhormat, hutang negara adalah hutang luar negara yang terdiri daripada hutang luar

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Malaysia’s foreign debt – Parliament Question