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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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Main Authors: Siwar, Chamhuri, Abdulai, Abdul-Mumin
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2011
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H96 Public policy (General), Policy sciences
HM831 Social change
L Education (General)
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spelling my.iium.irep.88472012-01-06T07:21:07Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/8847/ 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 Siwar, Chamhuri Abdulai, Abdul-Mumin H96 Public policy (General), Policy sciences HM831 Social change L Education (General) 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. 2011-03 Conference or Workshop Item REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/8847/1/SPAIN%27S_CONFERENCE_PROCEEDINGS--VALENCIA_edu-ecer_-2011.pdf Siwar, Chamhuri and Abdulai, Abdul-Mumin (2011) 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. In: 5th International Conference on Technology, Education and Development , 7th-9th March 2011, Valencia, SPAIN . http://www.iated.org/iceri2011/publications
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topic H96 Public policy (General), Policy sciences
HM831 Social change
L Education (General)
spellingShingle H96 Public policy (General), Policy sciences
HM831 Social change
L Education (General)
Siwar, Chamhuri
Abdulai, Abdul-Mumin
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
description 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.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Siwar, Chamhuri
Abdulai, Abdul-Mumin
author_facet Siwar, Chamhuri
Abdulai, Abdul-Mumin
author_sort Siwar, Chamhuri
title 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
title_short 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
title_full 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
title_fullStr 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
title_full_unstemmed 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
title_sort 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
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