| |
|
 |
As I
Was Saying:
Viewpoints, thoughts and aspirations of..
Lee Lam Thye
As I Was Saying expresses the views
and thoughts of a prominent Malaysian social activist-one who
steadfastly holds to the conviction that all Malaysians should
strive towards self-improvement and contribute to the well-being
of the nation. Inspired by his vision of a better society,
Lee talkss about a variety of issues, pertinent to development
and progress. Being perceptive and sensitive to the needs
of society also have enabled him to delve into issues which
are close to the heart of every Malaysian.
1998: 248pp
Pb: ISBN 967 978 643 9: US$9.90
|
 |
CEO Malaysia:
Strategy in Nation-Building
Hng Hung Yong
Dr Mahathir Mohainmad is known as the architect and
strategist of Malaysia's phenomenal growth over the last decade.
The fmancial crisis which began in mid-1997 has caused a pause
to this momentum and raised questions about the country's future
development. These events, however, have not diminished
the fundamental validity of the Malaysian model for multi-racial
living, nor have they seriously compromised the country's ability
to recover from its current economic problems. It explores
the nature of this resilience and suggests why plural society
has a better chance of succeeding in Malaysia than in other
parts of the world. The book deals with issues of change
and modernisation in post-1970 Malaysia, focusing on policies
and programmes associated with Dr Mahathir who has been Prime
Minister since 1981.
1998: 232pp
Pb: ISBN 967 978 646 3: US$29.90
|
 |
The Challenges
of Turmoil
Mahathir Mohamad
Dr Mahatllir speaks his mind on the need for unity in
the midst of turmoil. By defming the parameters of the
turmoil, Dr Mahathir drives home the point that this is not
the tiine for finger-pointing but to seize the challenge of
working out an economic recovery. He explains the hidden
agenda of currency speculators and how they had caused the devaluation
of the ringgit and the collapse of the stock market. Attacks
on the economy, if not resisted, could drive Malaysia into the
clutches of those who want to see the downfall of Malaysia.
Malaysia has since taken bold and drastic measures to counter
these 'speculative attacks'. This book reflects the Malaysian
attitude of 'Malaysia Boleh'.
1998: 52pp
Pb: ISBN 967 978 652 8: US$7.90
|
 |
CIVIL
SERVICE REFORMS
TOWARDS MALAYSIA'S VISION 2020
Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid
This book represents a collection
of ideas, notions and concepts extracted from the speeches of
Tan Sri Dato' Seri Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid, the Chief Secretary
to the Government. Some of the issues dealt in this book
include effective leadership, managing change, implementing
information technology in government, developing a significant
management identity, encouraging closer public-private sector
collaboration and tacit efforts to become more cost-conscious.
1996:140pp
Hb: ISBN 967 978 570
X: US$39.00
|
 |
THE CHANGING CIVIL SERVICE
Malaysia's Competitive
Edge
Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid
This book highlights the
major administrative reforms carried out by the Civil Service
to make the vision a reality. It also provides invaluable
insights into the leadership function, management philosophies,
policies, strategies and approaches adopted by the Civil Service
in response to the dictates and demands of the changing environment.
It serves as a useful source of reference for those who wish
to know how the Malaysian Civil Service transforms itself in
its pursuit of excellence and illustrates the significant role
of leadership in steering and shaping the destiny of organisations.
1993: 24Opp
Hb: ISBN 967 978 487 8: US$49.00
|
 |
DEALING WITH THE MALAYSIAN CIVIL SERVICE
MAMPU
This book is specially
designed to be a comprehensive and practical guide for both
the business community and members of the public. It provides
a clear and accurate understanding of the functions of the various
government agencies and the prevailing business environment
in Malaysia. It outlines the various Malaysian legislation,
procedures and conditions pertaining to the issue of licences,
permits and approvals. In brief, it focuses on providing
useful information at a quick glance on the conduct and operation
of different types of business activities which are useful for
both foreign and local investors.
1994: 634pp
Pb: ISBN 967 978 466 5: US$49.00
ALSO AVAILABLE IN BAHASA MALAYSIA
|
 |
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ISLAM
Dr AbulHassan Muhamnwd
Sadeq
This book analyses the issues
of economic development from an Islamic perspective. It
examines the meaning of economic development in Islam and presents
its three corriponents - economic growth, wealth and income
distribution and ethical social environment. This is also
the first of its kind to put together these ideas in a single
volume within the framework of the Islamic economic system.
1990:153pp
1990: ISBN 967 978
328 6: US$49.00
|
 |
Foreign Direct Investment
Phang Hooi Eng
This book studies the effects of FDI on the Malaysian
economy prompted by the rapid increase in approvals of foreign
direct investment since the 1970s. Like most developing
countries, Malaysia's incentives for investment in the manufacturing
sector tend to favour large multinationals; at present Malaysia
is encouraging foreign investment hi the Multimedia Super Corridor
(MSC).
1997: 102pp
Hb: ISBN 967 978 625 0
|
 |
LANGKAWI
The Hub of the Indonesia,
Malaysia, Thailand Growth Triangle With a Foreword by Tun Daim
Zainuddin
Tenku Idris Tenku
Hadi
This book reviews the general
pattern of economic development in Malaysia from 1950 to 2995.
Regional disparities and income inequalities have been identified
as the core issues necessitating a more intense pace of development
in Malaysia. National economic development as reflected
in the various government programmes and strategies in Malaysia
has been designed to achieve national unity and balanced economic
growth.
1996: 176pp
Hb: ISBN 967 978 548 3: US$49.00
|
 |
Mahathir Mohammad on the Multimedia Super Corridor
Malaysia is wiring up to be the Silicon valley of Asia
with the creation of the Mifitiinedia Super Corridor (MSC),
a new development model designed to catapult the country from
the Industrial Age to the Information Age. This book explores
the visions, objectives and plans to be implemented in making
this most ambitious IT initiatives a success. It also
describes the MSC's various incentives, multimedia products
and services that companies can utilise and benefit from.
1998: 104pp
Hb: ISBN 967 878 632 3: US$39.90
|
 |
MALAYSIA'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Policy & Reform
Edited by Jomo K.S. &
Ng Suew Kiat
This book offers fresh
perspectives on various aspects of development policy making
and implementation in Malaysia with a view towards influencing
development policy reform in Malaysia and towards the drafting
of the Seventh Malaysia Plan, 1996-2000. Through descriptive
and analytical assessment of the Malaysian Economy and drawing
from the lessons of accumulated experience, it proposes various
policy alternatives and other reforms believed to be superior
to and necessary for overcoming problems associated with the
status quo as well as market solutions.
1996: 492pp
Hb: ISBN 967 978 539 4: US$59.00
|
|
MALAYSIA'S ECONOMIC SUCCESS
Ataul Huq (Pramanik)
Unlike certain developing
countries that concentrate purely on industrialisation and capital
acquisition, Malaysia's economic development proceeded hand
in hand with human development. Socio-political development
was equally nurtured in an atmosphere of democratic values based
on tolerance, goodwill, sympathy and mutual co-operation, regardless
of race and culture. This book examines quite comprehensively
the various structural and policy issues of the government during
the New Economy Policy period, from 1970 to 1990. The
brimming information and precise analyses in this volume will
be of tremendous relevance and value to economists, business
analysts and economics students alike.
1994: 268pp (Revised)
Hb: ISBN 967 978 497 5: US$59.00
|
 |
MALAYSIA'S ECONOMIC VISION
Issues & Challenges
Edited by Teh Hoe Yoke
& Goh Kim Leng
This book identifies
the challenges facing the nation, taking full cognizance of
developments in the local and international environment such
as the increased threat of regional protectionism, the dampening
effects of the economic slowdown in the industrial countries,
a changing global trading environment, a tightening of the labour
market, rising wages, mounting inflationary pressures and how
these may affect an export-oriented manufacturing economy like
Malaysia.
1993: 44Opp
Hb: ISBN 967 978 425 8: US$59.00
|
 |
MALAYSIA'S AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
G. Sivalingam
Malaysia's Agricultural Transformation
focuses on the evolution of the agricultural sector in Peninsular
Malaysia from 1957 to the present and what can be done to alleviate
poverty among padi farmers, rubber smallholders and fishermen.
1993: 219pp
Hb: ISBN 967 978 485 1: US$49.00
|
 |
THE PACIFIC RIM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Alliances and Collaborations
in the Asia-Pacific
The hub of the world's economic
activity is gravitating towards the Asia-Pacific region, This
book looks at how the region can make its mark as an increasingly
powerful force in the global economy through intra-regional
strategic alliances and collaborations such as joint ventures,
business partnerships and technology transfer.
1995:110pp
Hb: ISBN 967 978 433
9: US$59.00
|
|
THE MARITIME ECONOMY OF MALAYSIA
Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahnian,
Jamali Janib & Wong Hin Wei
This book is the first attempt at quantifying
the size of the Malaysian maritime economy by using input-output
(I/0) analysis. The contribution of the maritime sector
to Malaysia's gross national product is larger than the 18 per
cent presented in this study if the contribution from the shipping
and port sectors are fully accounted for. This contribution
has made Malaysia once again a maritime nation in international
trade. It is the purpose of this book to promote marine
research and make people aware of the significance of the sea.
1997: 119pp
Hb: ISBN 967 978 572
6: US$99.00
|
|
MALAYSIA'S ECONOMY IN THE NINETIES
Edited by Jomo K. S.
This book by many of Malaysia's leading
economists discusses MaJaysia's economy as it enters the mid-1990s
from several perspectives: the importance of international trade
to the Malaysian economy and how direct foreign investment-by
bringing in capital, new technology and export market linkages-is
regarded an important catalyst of growth and industrial development;
the agricultural sector; technology issues; developments in
finance; manufacturing developments; the changing nature of
the public sector; and the impact of privatisation. It
provides a wide-ranging assessment of these sectors of the economy
as they respond to the challenges of the 1990s and beyond.
1994
Hb: ISBN 967 978 498 3: US$59.00
|
|
PENANG INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
This book provides in-depth analyses and
timely information on business, trade and investment opportunities
in the state as it strides towards the next millennium.
Foreign investors, local entrepreneurs and researchers who wish
to feel the pulse of Penang's development and understand the
forces driving its rapid growth and transformation will find
this book especially useful.
1995: 201 pp
Hb: ISBN 967 978 533
5: US$59.00
|
 |
MANAGING THE MALAYSIAN ECONOMY
Pitfalls, Challenges and
Opportunities
Ramon V Navaratnam
For Westerners hoping that
Malaysia's efforts at economic development would be marked with
humbling reverses that would enable them to continue to dominate
the country-psychologically as well as economically-the rapid
economic growth the country has enjoyed since the mid-1980s
is an uncomfortable fact that is hard to ignore. This
book is about that success and the challenges that lie ahead
as it marches towards the new millennium and beyond.
1997: 195pp
Hb: ISBN 967 978 581 5: US$49.00
|
 |
MALAYSIANS VISION 2020
Understanding the Concept, Implications
and Challenges
Edited and Introduction
by Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid
The year 1990 marked
the official deadline of the New Economic Policy that has shaped
Malaysian economic and social planning since 1970. The
form of policy that replaced the NEP is reflected in the National
Development Policy as embodied within the Second Outline Perspective
Plan, 1991-2000, which will set the pace towards achieving the
status of a fully developed nation by the year 2020.
1993: 474pp (Revised)
Hb: ISBN 967 978 471 1: US$69.00
|
 |
THE STRAITS OF MALACCA
International Co-operation
in Trade, Funding and Navigational Safety
Edited by B.A. Hamzah
& A. Khalid
The Straits of Malacca represents
the views of experts in various fields, notably international
law and the marine environment, and deals with navigational
safety, marine pollution and meeting the financial costs of
keeping the Straits of Malacca safe and clean. The physical
characteristics of the Straits are such that it is extremely
sensitive to the hazards of land-sourced as well as ship-sourced
pollution. Though the narrow fairways are dangerous to
navigation, there is a tendency for many Straits users to take
things for granted. Vigilance and caution must always
be exercised when transiting this stretch of water.
1997: 359pp
Hb: ISBN 967 978 576
9: US$99.00
|
 |
MALAYSIANS EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE
A Study In Legal Aspects
Hamzah bin Ahmad
This study deals with legal aspects of
Malaysia's Exclusive Economic Zone. It looks, in particular,
into the problems of illegal fishing in Malaysia's fishery waters.
The author argues that Malaysia, like any other coastal state,
has every right to enact laws to protect and promote its sovereign
rights to explore, exploit, conserve and manage the natural
resources within its own Exclusive Economic Zone. The
author maintains that the 1982 Convention on the Law of the
Sea has made substantive changes to the ocean regime which need
to be fully understood. Two relevant documents - the Exclusive
Economic Zone Act of 1984 and the Fisheries Act of 1985 - are
included as annexes to this study.
1988: 10Opp
Hb: ISBN 967 978 192 5: US$39.00
|
 |
Strengthening the Malaysian Economy:
Policy changes & reforms
Ramon V. Navaratnam
This book attempts to provide solutions to Malaysia's
economic malaise as it strives to become an industrialised nation.
The Malaysian economy, which had enjoyed speacular growth for
eight consecutive years, was jolted from its euphoria in July
1997, when the vicious contagion effect arising from the devaluation
of the Thai baht sent East Asian currencies and stock markets
plunging to new lows. Why was this breathtaking march
to prosperity brought to a grinding halt by the financial crisis?
What were the probable causes of crisis and what lessons can
be drawn from it? Find out the Malaysian way of handling
the crisis by one of the country's leading economists.
1998: 192pp
Pb: ISBN 967 978 642 0: US$14.90
|
