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Poverty and Inequality

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Policy Regimes and the Political Economy of Poverty Reduction in Malaysia

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At the point of independence in 1957, Malaya (subsequently Malaysia in 1963), was an ethnically divided nation, marked by substantial interethnic differences/disparities in educational attainment, occupation and residential location (rural/urban, state). As a consequence of those differences, there were substantial differences in income and wealth in the modern sector. Political organization and mobilization leading up to independence, despite compromises by all (ethnically based) parties, not only derived from those differences, but reinforced the perception that ethnicity was (and is) the principal axis of division, and the main explanatory and causal factor.

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Jin, K.K. (2012). Poverty and Inequality. In: Teik, K.B. (eds) Policy Regimes and the Political Economy of Poverty Reduction in Malaysia. Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137267016_3

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