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

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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.

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  • Edmund Terence Gomez, 2022. "The politics of affirmative action: ethnicity, equity, and state-business relations in Malaysia," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-104, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    1. Edmund Terence Gomez, 2012. "Targeting Horizontal Inequalities: Ethnicity, Equity, and Entrepreneurship in Malaysia," Asian Economic Papers, MIT Press, vol. 11(2), pages 31-57, Summer.
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    Politics; Enterprises; Affirmative action; Business; State; policy analysis; Ethnic relations; Equity;
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