Fostering inclusive growth in Malaysia

Nixon, Stewart; Asada, Hidekatsu; Koen, Vincent

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“…In another example, Malaysia has also focused on shifting to the challenges of poverty and achieving sustainable improvements in individual and societal well-being. In particular, Malaysia has encouraged inclusive growth through access to quality education, providing comprehensive social protection, raising the labour force participation rate of women and older persons, maintaining universal access to quality public healthcare and improving pension system sustainability (Nixon et al, 2017). Several other studies in developing countries have yielded similar conclusions, for instance, Rigg (2023) and Fleischer et al (2018) in Thailand, Mitra and Das (2018) in India, and Munir and Ullah (2018) in Pakistan.…”

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Exploring the Nexus between Regional Fiscal Capacity and the Convergence of Inclusive Economic Development

Sakti,

Bintoro,

Setyanti

et al. 2024

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In the fiscal decentralisation system, the establishment of fiscal capacity is of paramount importance as local governments must be capable of effectively managing their own financial resources to meet the needs of the local population and advance regional development. Possessing a robust fiscal capacity enables local governments to be more effective in enhancing regional economic growth. This study analyses the influence of regional fiscal capacity on the convergence of inclusive economic development across 34 provinces in Indonesia. Conditional beta convergence analysis is employed on the Inclusive Economic Development Index, which is influenced by the degree of fiscal decentralisation, local financial autonomy, effectiveness of local own-source revenue, indirect expenditure ratio and direct expenditure ratio. This study provides valuable insights revealing visible convergence trends among Indonesia’s 34 provinces indicating crucial progress in achieving inclusive economic development and eliminating inequality. Furthermore, the observed progress underlines the vital role of fiscal capacity, particularly the levels of fiscal decentralisation and direct spending, as a significant driver encouraging a positive trajectory of economic convergence between provinces.

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Exploring the Nexus between Regional Fiscal Capacity and the Convergence of Inclusive Economic Development

Sakti,

Bintoro,

Setyanti

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“…The government has spent more than RM 2 billion for the past ten years in addressing the poverty issue in Malaysia (CSDU 2017) which various ministries and departments have executed a number of programmes and projects. However, existing social protection programmes and projects in Malaysia are poorly coordinated, heavily siloed, which cross over many ministries and agencies and often ineffective (Nixon et al 2017;UNHR 2020). This reality shows that even with the low poverty incident recorded, there are many weaknesses in managing poverty alleviation projects, leading to the question of its sustainability in helping the poor people.…”

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Governance Practices in Poverty Alleviation Projects: Case Study from Stewardship-Driven Perspective and Sustainability Context

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Isa

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2021

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The successful planning and implementation of poverty alleviation projects are crucial for establishing optimum benefits to its intended target groups in line with the Sustainable Development Goals charted by the United Nations. This chapter focuses on exploring the project governance practices in poverty alleviation projects from public officials' perspective through the lens of stewardship theory. Project governance is a framework and functions to guide project management activities to meet organisational strategic and operational goals, leading to project success. By investigating three (3) public poverty alleviation projects in Malaysia, it is discovered that project governance is practised and positively interplayed with several project governance elements throughout the project planning and implementation. Several insights and rationales of the decision-making process from the sustainability contexts are also explored where the target groups should be allowed to participate in decision making in the front-end of the project, while lessons learnt from previous projects are invaluable input that should be compiled and documented for future references. Although the fragmented nature of public projects is considered a point of weakness, project delivery success could be achieved by utilising project governance practices applicable in public poverty alleviation projects.

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Fostering inclusive growth in Malaysia

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Exploring the Nexus between Regional Fiscal Capacity and the Convergence of Inclusive Economic Development

Exploring the Nexus between Regional Fiscal Capacity and the Convergence of Inclusive Economic Development

Governance Practices in Poverty Alleviation Projects: Case Study from Stewardship-Driven Perspective and Sustainability Context

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