Capturing Malaysia’s transformation


  • Nation
  • Monday, 15 Jul 2019

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s tremendous social and economic transformation journey since the 1847 Pangkor Treaty has been captured in Sultan of Perak Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah’s latest book.

Titled Striving for Inclusive Development: From Pangkor to a Modern Malaysian State, the book takes readers on a journey from the British colonial administration that established economic structures to the creation of the nation’s sustained rapid economic growth in the post-independence decades.

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