Comparative study of economic development and politial economy in Malaysia

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26360007
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
• Principal Investigator: Kawano Motoko 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, 助教授 (80552017)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ポリティカル・エコノミー / 新興国 / マレーシア / 中所得国の罠 / 高付加価値化 / ハイテク志向製造業 / 資源利用型産業 / 政治発展

Outline of Final Research Achievements

For more than fifty years, Malaysia has achived remarkable economic growth, and the country has moved from low-income to upper middle-income status. Since 1997/98, however, the economy never fully recovered from the adverse impat of the 97/98 Asian financial crisis. Malaysia may fall in 'middle-income trap', and faced the political issues related to various disparities including income, region and welfare ownership. How has the industrial structure changed,and have various disparities appeared after that crisis? In that hard time, how have local firms survived and contributed the national economy?. Based on field research of rubber industry, this study explored that 1) the contradiction of the New Economic Policy would help widen the gap between the rich and the poor or the urban and rural or ethnic disparity, however, 2) Some resource based industries succeeded to gain the higher value added activities through public-private linkages and the industrial diversification.

Free Research Field

東南アジア地域研究、比較政治経済