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This chapter attempts to shed some light on the impact of privatisation in the Malaysian water sector by employing a quantitative based empirical analysis. Malaysia is useful country case study on the impact of privatisation in the water sector. There is a variety of forms of institutions in its water sector – full privatisation, partial privatisation and state. The country is also a developing economy, with a significant rural area where access to treated water continues to be serious problem. Thus, the Malaysian water sector provides an opportunity for an empirical test of the impact of privatisation in a developing economy. Finally, this is the first study of the Malaysian water sector using household expenditure data.  Publication: UNRISD project on “Social Policy, Regulation and Private Sector Involvement in Water Supply???.  Author: Lee, Hong Kim Cassey. 

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Author: Jomo K.S. Published on: Identities, Conflict and Cohesion Programme Paper Number 7 September 2004; United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Summary: Malaysia’s New Economic Policy (NEP) was first announced in 1970 as the principal policy response to the post-election race riots of May 1969, which also resulted in a significant regime change. This paper suggests that the events of May 1969 also involved a widespread popular rejection of the ruling Alliance coalition as well as a "palace coup" within the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) as the "Young Turks" supporting then-Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak sidelined Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, who had led the UMNO from 1951 and the country to independence in August 1957. The Rahman regime was seen by the new Razak regime as having been too conciliatory toward the ubiquitous Chinese business community. The Razak NEP regime, through the NEP, was therefore committed to increased ethnic affirmative action, or positive discrimination policies, on behalf of the ethnic Malays in particular and bumiputera (indigenous Malaysians) in general. The NEP had two prongs, namely "poverty eradication regardless of race" and "restructuring society to eliminate the identification of race with economic function". The NEP was supposed to create the conditions for national unity by reducing interethnic resentment due to socioeco-nomic disparities. In practice, the NEP policies were seen as pro-bumiputera, or more specifi-cally, pro-Malay, the largest indigenous ethnic community. Poverty reduction efforts have been seen as primarily rural and Malay, with policies principally oriented to rural Malay peasants. As poverty reduction efforts had been uncontroversial and had declined in significance over time, the NEP came to be increasingly identified with efforts at "restructuring society" efforts to reduce interethnic disparities, especially between ethnic Malay and ethnic Chinese Malaysians.

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When talks emerged last year about expanding the air services agreement (ASA) between Malaysia and Singapore, industry observers took this as a sign that the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore route will be finally made available to other airlines, putting an end to the long-held stranglehold by ‘duopoly’, Malaysian Airlines System (MAS), which owns Malaysia Airlines and Singapore Airlines (SIA). Aviation analysts say that it is about time that Malaysia and Singapore open up the much-guarded route. The existing ASA was last reviewed nearly 30 years ago. Since then, all air traffic rights for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore sector has been fully used up. As a result, new carriers were unable to service this route.

Budget airlines have been lobbying for the decades-old agreement to be dismantled, arguing that low-cost carriers (LCCs) will promote healthy competition, maximise efficiency, and ultimately, passing on gains to travellers through lower airfares. For travellers, this is indeed terrific news. Especially when they have to fork out over RM800 for a round-trip ticket, inclusive of fees and taxes, just for a mere 40minute ride.

Author: Wong, ChayNee. Publication: MIERScan, 28 May 2007. 

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