Issues and Challenges in the Malaysian Economy

Towards Inclusive Growth

Mohd Fahmee Ab Hamid|Umar Abdul Basar|Rozilee Asid|Wan Farisan Wan Sulaiman|Elya Nabila Abdul Bahri|Nor Fatimah Che Sulaiman|Norlee Ramli
Emerald
Emerald

This book can be opened with

Glassboxx eBooks and audiobooks can be opened on phones, tablets, iOS and Android devices

Paperback / softback
9781838674823
06 November 2019
$61.99
eBook (PDF)
9781838674793
06 November 2019
$47.99
eBook (ePub)
9781838674816
06 November 2019
$47.99

Note on our eBooks and Audiobooks: you can read our eBooks (ePUB or PDF) and listen to audiobooks on the free Emerald Books app on iOS, Android, and desktop. Or read and listen on Emerald's online reader (ePUB eBooks and audiobooks only). To purchase a digital book you will need to create an account if you don’t already have one. After purchasing you will receive instructions on how to get started.

  • Description
  • Contents
  • Reviews
  • About
Focusing on Malaysia's shifting economic profile and position, this book investigates a range of new developments impacting on growth, such as the effects of the digital economy on jobs creation and the threats of environmental degradation and trade protectionism.  
In developing the debate around the importance of achieving high economic growth through various government initiatives, the chapters discuss a number of issues, including: 
  • trade and innovation economics 
  • capital flight risk 
  • financial development 
  • income inequality 
  • fiscal policy sustainability  
  • agricultural economy
A leading team of Malaysian economics and business scholars offer new insights and perspectives to scholars and researchers working in the fields of economic policy, developing economics and East Asian studies, who are interested in the multiple challenges facing this fast-moving economy.

Introduction Chapter 1. How Foreign Capital and Triadic Patent Propensity Can Assist in Inclusive Growth  Chapter 2. Cost Efficiency on Bank Market Risk: Towards Inclusive Growth  Chapter 3. An Analysis of Capital Flight Risk: Case for Human Capital in Inclusive Growth  Chapter 4. Foreign Direct Investment, Financial Development, Exchange Rate Volatility: An Analysis of the Malaysian Inequitable Growth  Chapter 5. Economic Growth and Income Distribution: A Study of Inclusive Growth Index  Chapter 6. Rubber Prices Volatility and Inequality in Economic Development  Chapter 7. Role of Fiscal Policy in Inclusive Growth

    This volume explores how Malaysia can achieve inclusive growth through economic areas like trade, innovation, efficiency, and fiscal policy, as well as how specific areas of development contribute to inclusive growth, such as foreign direct investment and the rural community economy. It addresses how foreign capital, triadic patent propensity, and intellectual property rights protection can assist in inclusive growth; market risk and the effect of efficiency on market risk in Malaysia; the role of human capital and capital flight risk; the impact of foreign direct investment and financial development on income inequality; inclusive distribution and the Malaysian Inclusive Growth Index; the role of rubber price volatility in economic development; and the importance of fiscal policy in inclusive growth. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution.

    - Annotation ©2019
    Mohd Fahmee Ab Hamid is an Executive at Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia. 
    Umar Abdul Basar is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Management and Information Technology, Universiti Sultan Azlan Shah (USAS), Malaysia.
    Rozilee Asid is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Malaysia. 
    Wan Farisan Wan Sulaiman is Principal Economist of Economics Modelling and Policy Studies at the Fiscal and Economics Division of the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Malaysia. 
    Elya Nabila Abdul Bahri is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia.  
    Nor Fatimah Che Sulaiman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia. 
    Norlee Ramli is the Head of Global Testing and Consultancy for Rubber (G-TACR) at the Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB), Malaysia.