Infrastructure and Rural Development in Malaysia
INFRASTRUCTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN MALAYSIA
Introduction
1. Malaysia has achieved substantial success in its rural development, especially in reducing the incidence of poverty in both rural and urban. In the process, the rural areas have been developed with infrastructures, utility, social amenities, health and school facilities and etc to support the economic development of the country as well as increasing the quality of life of her populace. The productivity and incomes of the rural people, or more specifically the agriculture sector, the mainstay of the rural economy, have steadily increased. Rural development continues to be one of the main focus of the Malaysian
Government under the 9 th Malaysia Plan (2006 – 1010).
2. More significantly, the development that has taken place since independence in 1957, and especially since the launching of the new
Economic Policy (NEP) in 1971, has generated a feeling among a large number of the rural people that they are part of the nation’s growth and modernization process, and that they have not been neglected or marginalized. Needless to say rural development in almost synonymous with poverty eradication.
3. Infrastructure and rural development in Malaysia is part and parcel of a well planned and executed process. At the macro level our national development has always been guided by a series of long term
Outline Perspective Plans (OPP). Thus far three OPP’s have been implemented guided consecutively by the philosophy of the New
Economic Policy (NEP 1971-1990), the National Development Policy 2
(NDP 1991-2000) and the National Vision Policy (NVP 2001 -2010).
These OPP’s are in turn implemented through a series of five year development plans; the current being the Ninth Malaysia Plan (2006-
2010).
Objectives in infrastructure development
4. Four motives have shaped the scale and pattern of the infrastructure and rural development strategies of the Malaysian
Government.
1
i) Recognizing
Introduction
1. Malaysia has achieved substantial success in its rural development, especially in reducing the incidence of poverty in both rural and urban. In the process, the rural areas have been developed with infrastructures, utility, social amenities, health and school facilities and etc to support the economic development of the country as well as increasing the quality of life of her populace. The productivity and incomes of the rural people, or more specifically the agriculture sector, the mainstay of the rural economy, have steadily increased. Rural development continues to be one of the main focus of the Malaysian
Government under the 9 th Malaysia Plan (2006 – 1010).
2. More significantly, the development that has taken place since independence in 1957, and especially since the launching of the new
Economic Policy (NEP) in 1971, has generated a feeling among a large number of the rural people that they are part of the nation’s growth and modernization process, and that they have not been neglected or marginalized. Needless to say rural development in almost synonymous with poverty eradication.
3. Infrastructure and rural development in Malaysia is part and parcel of a well planned and executed process. At the macro level our national development has always been guided by a series of long term
Outline Perspective Plans (OPP). Thus far three OPP’s have been implemented guided consecutively by the philosophy of the New
Economic Policy (NEP 1971-1990), the National Development Policy 2
(NDP 1991-2000) and the National Vision Policy (NVP 2001 -2010).
These OPP’s are in turn implemented through a series of five year development plans; the current being the Ninth Malaysia Plan (2006-
2010).
Objectives in infrastructure development
4. Four motives have shaped the scale and pattern of the infrastructure and rural development strategies of the Malaysian
Government.
1
i) Recognizing