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Economic policies

P. Ramasamy and Eddie Toh

Economic Policies

Tun Abdul Razak (third from left )addressing Permanent Secretaries on the Second Malaysia Plan, February 1970.

The government has employed the three economic policies adopted since 1971 to engage in social and economic re-engineering. Advised by bodies such as the Economic Planning Unit and the Implementation Coordination Unit, the government successfully formulated these policies in consultation with a wide cross-section of society.

  • Information in the full article includes
  • The New Economic Policy (1971–1990)
  • The National Development Policy (1991–2000)