Education as a catalyst towards realising the development goals of Malaysia: case study of the east coast economic study OF THE EAST COAST ECONOMIC REGION
As contained in her national development mission, Malaysia is expected to become a developed and high income economy by 2020. A mission favourably referred to as the Vision 2020. The realisation of such a noble goal will not come on a silver platter. Perhaps this awareness underscores the identif...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/8847/1/SPAIN%27S_CONFERENCE_PROCEEDINGS--VALENCIA_edu-ecer_-2011.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/8847/ http://www.iated.org/iceri2011/publications |
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| Summary: | As contained in her national development mission, Malaysia is expected to become a developed and
high income economy by 2020. A mission favourably referred to as the Vision 2020. The realisation of
such a noble goal will not come on a silver platter. Perhaps this awareness underscores the
identification of certain sectors of the economy by the Malaysian government as key to achieve this
development target. And education, to generate innovative knowledge for sustained economic growth,
is one of the sectors. To achieve the status of a developed economy can be hard, especially in the
midst of deep-seated development disparities among regions in the economy. Removing development
imbalances among regions is believed to have positive impact on long-term economic growth. It also
reduces income inequalities among citizens and increases their livelihood chances, thereby leading to
higher living standards. For this reason, the Malaysian government has adopted a regional
development approach, which seeks to correct regional development imbalances for accelerated and
sustained development. This paper examines one such region—the east coast economic region
(ECER)--where education has been seen as one of the important sectors to bridge the development
gap between this underdeveloped region and the other relatively developed regions in Malaysia. |
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