Holding off premature deindustrialisation


Quah Boon Huat

MALAYSIA was part of the “East Asian miracle” in the 1990s. But unlike South Korea and Taiwan, its economic growth run stalled and as a result, came up short in taking the country to the next level of development.

Deindustrialisation, which started in the early 2000s, had likely played a part.

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