The politics of affirmative action: ethnicity, equity, and state-business relations in Malaysia

Edmund Terence Gomez

No wp-2022-104, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Malaysia provides for interesting paradoxes. Poverty was reduced by adopting a horizontal perspective to policy planning through affirmative action targeting one ethnic group lagging economically in society. However, outcomes of affirmative action include growing wealth and income disparities, a problem this policy was supposed to address. Furthermore, the government has not been able to dictate the pattern of enterprise development despite a variety of state-business relations to shape the evolution of Malay-owned enterprises.

Keywords: Politics; Enterprises; Affirmative action; Business; State; policy analysis; Ethnic relations; Equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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