The objective of this paper is to examine the changes in Malaysian income distribution during the last three and a half decades and the reasons for the changes. It was found that the Gini ratio for Malaysia peaked in 1976 and fell thereafter to 1990. However, inequality seems to reverse its...
Poverty eradication and income distribution in Malaysia. Journal of Contemporary Asia 28(3):327-345.Akira Ishida & Azizan Asmuni (1998). Poverty Eradication and Income Distribution in Malaysia. Journal of Contemporary Asia 28(3), 327-345.
For the sake of illustration, let’s just say for a moment, that you increased the income levels of some 90 million people (including population growth) by P10,000 per month on average just to get them to a more decent level of existence. That would mean 10.8 TRILLION more in annual in...
Present for less than 182 daysbut physically present for at least 182 consecutive days in the second half of the previous year and the first half of the following year. Temporary absences for valid reasons (e.g., service in Malaysia, personal illness, illness of an immediate family member, ...
Malaysia's e-commerce income grew 5.4 percent year-on-year to 289.5 billion ringgit (62.29 billion U.S. dollars) in the third quarter, official data showed on Wednesday. The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOM) said in a stat...
aMalaysia is now caught in the middle-income trap because it is still using the economic growth strategy, the New Economic Policy (NEP), that was formulated in 1970 when the structure of Malaysia’s economy and the international economic conditions were very different from today.[translate]...
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The general trend in the Gini coefficients (income inequality) presented in the Fig. 2 seems to demonstrate a rising curve as per capita GDP increases from the low income to the middle income level (Malaysia) before it turns downward as income increases from middle income to the high income ...
Maintaining a sustained level of productivity growth is an important aspect of the economic development process, particularly in periods of economic turbulence. This paper examines the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) growth and their behavior in five middle-income ASEAN countries during ...
Current arrangements are inadequate in meeting the needs of an increasingly elderly population and thus leaves them vulnerable to the socially exclusive aspects of poverty in old age. Both Singapore and Malaysia rely on the provident fund mechanism as the main source of income in old age. This ...