The Politics of Poverty Eradication

The Implementation of Development Projects in a Malaysian District

Bibliographic Data

ID2886841
AuthorsShamsul A B, A B Shamsul (Monash University, corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume56
Issue3
Pages455
Publication date1983-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePacific Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2758192
OpenAlexW2320232931
LanguageEN
Citations received7

M MALAYSIA s NEW ECONOMIC POLICY (NEP), which was launched in association with the government's Second Malaysia Plan (197175), has been the subject of much discussion in the context of development at the national level. This article will focus on empirical issues pertaining to its implementation, and thus offer a picture of its impact at the local level.' It begins with a brief discussion of the origins of the NEP and its objectives. The next section examines the implementation of the NEP, especially its poverty eradication aspect, within one administrative district,2 and is mainly concerned with the process whereby the bureaucratic operations of the development machinery are ultimately controlled by politicians. The third section describes the different categories of development projects available within the district under the poverty eradication objective of the NEP, and demonstrates, again, the political dimension of the projects' distribution. The final section presents some detailed cases of the implementation and distribution of these benefits in a particular village within one state electoral constituency in the district studied. Data presented in this essay were gathered during an extended period of field study throughout 1980 and 1981

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Asian Studies and History · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies

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