Overview
- Traces how government-business ties have evolved in Malaysia, with much power currently centered in the office of the Minister of Finance
- Analyses a type of institution that has long prevailed in the Malaysian corporate scene; government-linked investment companies (GLICs)
- Focuses on how the current government regime has consolidated control over Malaysia’s corporate sector through one major, but relatively unknown government enterprise, the Minister of Finance Incorporated (MoF Inc.)
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Keywords
- Political Economy of Malaysia
- Government-Business Ties in Malaysia
- GLICs and Control of the Corporate Sector in Malaysia
- Government-Linked Investment Companies in Malaysia
- Government-Business Ties
- Government-Linked Investment Companies
- Government Control of the Corporate Sector
- GLCs and Ownership of the Corporate Sector in Malaysia
- GLCs and Ownership of the Corporate Sector
- Government-Linked Companies
- Government-Linked Companies in Malaysia
- Ownership and Control of the Corporate Sector in Malaysia
- Public policy and Enterprise Development in Malaysia
- Public policy and Enterprise Development
- Politics of Patronage in Malaysia
- Politics of Patronage
- Corruption in Malaysia
Table of contents (5 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Edmund Terence Gomez is Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya. He has held appointments at the University of Leeds (UK) and Murdoch University (Australia) and served as Visiting Professor at Kobe University, Japan and at the Universities of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and California (San Diego) (USA). Between 2005 and 2008, he served as Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), in Geneva, Switzerland.
Thirshalar Padmanabhan is currently pursuing a Masters of Development Studies degree at the University of Malaya.
Norfaryanti Kamaruddin is a research officer with the Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Fikri Fisal is currently pursuing a Masters of Development Studies degree at theUniversity of Malaya.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Minister of Finance Incorporated
Book Subtitle: Ownership and Control of Corporate Malaysia
Authors: Edmund Terence Gomez, Thirshalar Padmanabhan, Norfaryanti Kamaruddin, Sunil Bhalla, Fikri Fisal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4897-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4896-8Published: 02 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5259-1Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4897-5Published: 24 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 256
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Political Economy, Public Finance, Governance and Government, Asian Politics, Public Policy, Asian Economics