The politics in ensuring responsive and inclusive poverty alleviation policy

The case of five-year Malaysia Plans

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ID10476755
AuthorsMuthanna Saari (0000-0002-7453-4764, University of Malaya, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume114
Issue5
Pages645-663
Publication date2025-06-13
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Round Table (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0035-8533 • E-ISSN: 1465-4008
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00358533.2025.2515509
OpenAlexW4411281262
LanguageEN
References cited26

Since 1950, Malaysia’s legislative body, in its various formations, has been a key arena for introducing and deciding national development policies, consistently through five-year Malaysia plans. This paper discusses the politics of poverty alleviation policy being brought to and debated in the Parliament of Malaysia. Employing a multi-method approach combining policy evaluation research and parliamentary ethnography, the study finds that legislative policy scrutiny had minimal impact on executive policy implementation. Largely due to limited avenues for parliamentary oversight, it also indicates that executive power dominance reduces legislative oversight effectiveness, potentially affecting the quality of poverty alleviation policies

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Politics · Poverty · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Urban and Rural Development Challenges

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