Feminism and the Women's Movement in Malaysia by Maznah Mohamad Cecilia Ng tan beng Hui

Author:Maznah Mohamad, Cecilia Ng, tan beng Hui [Maznah Mohamad, Cecilia Ng, tan beng Hui]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Ethnic Studies, General, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781134188833
Google: Y3dQ8yfHOzoC
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-04-18T05:40:36+00:00

From industrialization to the k-economy

Since the 1980s the acceleration of neo-liberal globalization, particularly economic liberalization, has transformed the pattern of production and employment for women in Southeast Asia. Ghosh (1999) has identified three phases of this period of economic globalization:

• the phase of integration based on trade and foreign direct investment associated with rapidly increasing exports;

• the phase of financial integration; and

• the phase of crisis and adjustment, which is also associated with further liberalization.

In line with these development stages, the Malaysian economy grew by leaps and bounds from the 1980s right through the mid-1990s. Indeed, in an era of unparalleled growth in the Asia-Pacific region, Malaysia stood out as a success story with an average growth rate of 8.5 per cent per annum, making it one of the world's fastest growing economies. Focusing on export-oriented industrialization as the path towards development, the Sixth Malaysia Plan noted that:

This new approach to industrialization will emphasise the development of export-oriented, high value-added, high technology industries … the objective of the industrial policy is to move towards capital-intensive and technologically sophisticated industries producing better quality and competitive products that are integrated with the markets of the developed countries …and in the long run, industrial development will emphasise greater automation and other labour-saving production processes to reduce labour utilization.

(Government of Malaysia, 1991: 137–9)

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