The Failed Promise of Malaysia’s New Economic Policy
The affirmative action program should have embraced entrepreneurship, not cronyism
| May 7 | 4 | 1 |
By: Murray Hunter
In 1971, still smarting from disastrous race riots in 1969 that are believed to have taken the lives of hundreds of people on both sides, Malaysia’s government implemented a revolutionary affirmative action program for its ethnic Malay majority to attempt to bring them up to the commanding economic heights occupied by the minority ethni…