thoughts on economic progress and malaysia

For the past two weeks, I’ve been reading material on state developmental models in East Asia - principally the books by Linda Weiss, Robert Wade and an edited volume by Andrew MacIntyre.

This partially explains the silence and why I am blogging in a very “distracted manner”… but that’s besides the point. The point, if there is one, is that all this reading got me thinking about Malaysia and the challenges facing the country in promoting economic growth and development. The following thoughts came to mind.

Caveat: these are all very tentative ideas, they have not been analysed nor substantiated properly and are merely hypotheses at this stage.