A Flowchart Approach to Malaysia's Automobile Industry Cluster Policy

Kuchiki Akifumi

No 120, IDE Discussion Papers from Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO)

Abstract: In this paper, we apply a flowchart approach to investigate Malaysia's automobile cluster policy. We investigate whether the industrial cluster policy has been successful or not, suggest policy prescriptions, and propose a way to prioritize policy measures. Our flowchart approach leads to the following three policy prescriptions: (1) Malaysian firms should establish sites for exporting compact cars with automatic transmissions; (2) actors in the public, semi-public and private sector should work to upgrade skilled labor; and (3) the central government should promote liberalization and deregulation to attract foreign firms into the supporting industries.

Keywords: Malaysia; Automobile industry cluster; Policy prescriptions; Actors; Deregulation; Industrial estates; Industrial policy; マレーシア; 自動車産業クラスター; 政策処方箋; アクター; 規制緩和; 工業地帯; 産業政策 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G18 O18 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-09-01
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