Seminar: Udvikling, investering og industripolitik i Malaysia

Time: Tuesday, 24 May at 13 – 15 hours

Venue: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, ground floor, Strandgade 71, Christianshavn, 1401 Kbn K

Background

Until the East Asian financial crisis, Malaysia was taken to be a successful development country balancing rapid economic growth and industrialization with poverty alleviation and ethno-economic redistribution.

Time: Tuesday, 24 May at 13 – 15 hours

Venue: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, ground floor, Strandgade 71, Christianshavn, 1401 Kbn K

Background

Until the East Asian financial crisis, Malaysia was taken to be a successful development country balancing rapid economic growth and industrialization with poverty alleviation and ethno-economic redistribution.

This success has been explained by a developmental model that was either driven by liberal economic policy and foreign direct investments and/or by active industrial policy and a domestic coalition of ethnic-based political and business elites.
However, in the post-crisis 2000s, Malaysia is widely seen as stalling in its transition to high-tech developed country status by 2020.

The question is whether Malaysia is stuck in the middle-income country trap, or whether a reorganized governing political coalition is carving out niches in the global economy that allows Malaysia to accomplish the technological transition with less reliance on foreign capital.

Peter Wad is Associate Professor at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management at Centre for Business and Development Studies, Copenhagen Business School (CBS).

His research has focused on globalization, competitiveness and local firms in developing countries with particular focus at the global automobile industry, as well as international labor standards and trade unions in developing countries in East/Southeast Asia and Malaysia in particular.

He has published in international journals like Asia Pacific Business Review, Journal of Asia Pacific Economy and International Journal of Institutions and Economies. His latest publication is a chapter on “Industrial Relations and Labor Market Conditions” co-authored with Professor Rene Ofreneo, in the anthology “The New Political Economy of Southeast Asia” (Edward Elgar, 2010).

This is the ninth seminar in the Business-State Relations and Economic Development seminar series being held this spring at DIIS.

SPEAKERS
* Peter Wad, Associate Professor, CBS
* Lindsay Whitfield, Project Senior Researcher, DIIS

PROGRAMME
12.30 – 13
Arrival and Coffee

13 – 14
Development Coalitions, Foreign Business and Industrial Policy in Malaysia – Peter Wad, Associate Professor, CBS

14 – 15
Open Discussion

Chair: Lindsay Whitfield, Project Senior Researcher, DIIS

The seminar will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use the online registration form

And do so no later than Monday 23 May at 12.00 noon.

Please await confirmation by e-mail from DIIS for participation.

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), The Conference Section, Strandgade 56, 1401 Kbn K, tlf. 32 69 87 51, e-mail: [email protected] og web: www.diis.dk