Product Description: In 1971 Malaysia adopted the "New Economic Policy," an affirmative action program aimed at improving the relative economic status of the politically dominant but economically disadvantaged Malay community. NEP targets included the reduction of poverty and the "restructuring of society" to provide Malays with more attractive jobs and greater participation in the ownership and control of wealth...read more

Product Description: For over forty years the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) has worked with countries in the developing world on the complex issues of economic and social reform. This volume describes the experience of the Institute in the challenging development assistance world of the 1980s and early 1990s, when HIID's largest projects involved work with countries attempting to move away from high levels of government intervention to more market-friendly systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)