Pilot Studies for a New Penang / / ed. by Kee Beng Ooi, Ban Lee Goh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Beng, Ooi Kee,; Chiang, Chan Huan,; Choon, Lee Kah,; Eng, Lim Guan,; Hui, Lim Mah,; Hutchinson, Francis E.,; I-Lin, Sin,; Jessy, Ajit Singh,; Kesavapany, K.,; Khoon, Chan Chee,; Lee, Goh Ban,; Leng, Ong Wooi,; Majeed, Hamdan Abdul,; Narayan, Suresh,; Ping, Ho Yuen,; Radhi, Nungsari Ahmad,; Ramasamy, P.,; Tong, Liew Chin,; Wong, Poh-Kam,; Yue-Yi, Hwa,
• HerausgeberIn: Goh, Ban Lee,; Ooi, Kee Beng,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Most of the chapters in this volume were first presented at the Penang Outlook Forum 2009, held on 1-2 June 2009 at the E&O Hotel in Penang. A few others have been added to complement those at the conference. At present, comprehensive and authoritative studies on Penang's current economic conditions are a rarity. This book is thus an effort to correct that lack. Evidence does suggest that the state had not been doing well in the first half of the first decade of the new millennium. Being a small state situated relatively far away from the administrative capital of Putrajaya, Penang has to be economically innovative if it is to regain its place at the forefront of Malaysian development. The relationship between the state and the federal government remains a vital matter.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Moving Penang from Past to Present -- 2. Asia’s Shift towards Innovation and Its Implications for Penang -- 3. Shallow Pockets but Close to the Action: Industrial Policy at the Sub-national Level and the Case of Penang -- 4. Implementing Pro-Employment Policies at the Sub-national Level -- 5. Re-thinking State and Health Care in Penang -- 6. Social Justice and the Penang Housing Question -- 7. Some Thoughts on Private Higher Education in Penang -- 8. Re-examining State Finances and Governance: The Challenge for Penang -- 9. Tweaking the State Delivery Mechanism: The Case of the MPPP -- 10. Positioning Penang for Sustainable Growth -- 11. The Wage-Productivity Question and Women in the Workforce: A Labour Statistics Approach for the Penang State Government -- 12. The Embodiment of Social Justice in Employment Legislation and HR Practices -- Epilogue. Social Dimensions of Economic Development