Generating over 37% of GDP and contributing about RM263bn ($84.8bn) to GNI, the Greater Kuala Lumpur/Klang Valley (GKL/KV) region is the prosperous core and the administrative axis of Malaysia’s economic growth. In 2011, the number of people living in the region – which falls under 10 local authorities – hovered at about 6m, or around 20% of the...
How do you see Melaka’s policies for economic diversification, and what specific areas will be emphasised in the coming years?
It was in 2006 that the government first unveiled a major new tool in its strategy to help the country achieve fully developed nation status by 2020. Contained within the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP), released back then as the latest of the country’s five-year development programmes, was a section outlining the creation of five distinct regional...
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