Affirmative action and economic liberalisation: The dilemmas of the Malaysian automotive industry

Noriyuki Segawa; Kaoru Natsuda; John Thoburn

doi:10.1080/10357823.2014.928847

Affirmative action and economic liberalisation: The dilemmas of the Malaysian automotive industry

Noriyuki Segawa, Kaoru Natsuda, John Thoburn

School of Global Development

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Abstract

This paper considers the ways in which Malaysia has tried to develop automotive production through promoting a nationally owned car producer, Proton, and to carve out some "policy space" to continue a degree of protection whilst also liberalising its trade regime. We show that protection has not yet succeeded in making Proton and its many vendors internationally competitive, and why Malaysia has found that it has to secure the cooperation of a major automotive multinational to upgrade and to achieve export success.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	422-441
Number of pages	20
Journal	Asian Studies Review
Volume	38
Issue number	3
Early online date	26 Jun 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2014.928847
Publication status	Published - Jul 2014

Keywords

affirmative action
automotive industry
bumiputera
industrial policy
Malaysia
motor industry
Proton

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