1st Edition

Government-Linked Companies and Sustainable, Equitable Development

Edited By Terence Gomez, François Bafoil, Kee-Cheok Cheong Copyright 2015
198 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The debate over how far governments should intervene in economies in order to promote economic growth, a debate which from the 1980s seemed settled in favour of the neo-liberal, non-interventionist consensus, has taken on new vigour since the financial crisis of 2008 and after. Some countries, most of them in industrialised Asia, have survived the crisis, and secured equitable economic growth, by... Read more
Introduction Edmund Terence Gomez, François Bafoil and Cheong Kee Cheok  1. Economic Liberalization and the Performance of Public Sector Enterprises in India Sunil Mani  2. The Chinese State, State Enterprises, and the Global Crisis Cheong Kee Cheok, Li Ran and Zhang Miao  3. The Creative Role of the State and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Taiwan Michelle F. Hsieh  4. South Korea: GLCs as Agents of Economic Development Jong G. Back  5. The State’s Business: Government-Linked Companies, the Financial Sector, and Socioeconomic Development in Malaysia Edmund Terence Gomez, Elsa Satkunasingam, and Lee Hwok Aun  6. Poland: A Systemic Transforming Process From State-Planned to Liberal Economy François Bafoil  7. Internationalization and a Competitiveness Agenda: Development Banks and Agencies Responses to the Financial Crisis in Brazil and Chile Alvaro Artigas

Biography

Edmund Terence Gomez is Professor of Political Economy in the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Malaysia

François Bafoil is Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS, Sciences Po., France

Kee-Cheok Cheong is Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Malaysia