Manufacturing strength

Article Abstract:

The Sixth Malaysia Plan aims to sustain the manufacturing boom which will drive Malaysia to newly industrialized country status. Part of its daring plans is to shift emphasis to local parts manufacture to strengthen small scale industries, reduce dependence on imports and provide a market for the steel industry. Other major plans are to increase outlays for research to complement the planned shift to high technology from labor-intensive industries and to channel lumber, palm oil and rubber production to value-added manufacturing industries.

Manufacturing industry, Manufacturing industries

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On the road to growth

Article Abstract:

Traffic jams and disruption of power, water supply and telephone service are only some of the problems resulting from Malaysia's phenomenal economic growth since the liberalization of foreign investment laws in 1987. A worsening of the chronic labour shortage is expected as the turnout of graduates from universities and technical schools remains insufficient to augment the country's small workforce. The government is trying out various solutions to these problems to enable industries to sustain economic growth well into the next century.

Infrastructure (Economics)

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Muslim brothers: Malaysia uses Islamic solidarity to bolster Mideast ties

Article Abstract:

Malaysia hopes that its status as a Muslim country will enable it to improve economic links with Middle Eastern countries. Specifically, the Malaysian government wants trade with the Middle East to go up by 10-15% for the remainder of the 1990s. Malaysia's ambitions may encourage Japan to invest in the Middle East as governments there would like it to do by providing an East Asian Muslim partner with whom the Japanese could cooperate on joint projects.

Analysis, Japan, International aspects, Middle East, International economic relations, Islamic economics

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