...• To eradicate poverty among Malaysians irrespective of race. • To restructure Malaysian society so as to reduce and eventually eliminate the identification of race with economic functions and dwelling places. Thus, for the periods 1971-75 and 1976-80, MR2,862 million (US $1,278...

...raising income levels and increasing employment opportunities for all Malaysians irrespective of race and to accelerate the process of restructuring Malaysian society to correct economic imbalance so as to eliminate the identification of race with economic function. The people of Peninsular Malaysia being...

...NEP. It soon became apparent that the primary thrust of the NEP lay elsewhere, namely in: accelerating the process of restructuring Malaysian society to...the identification of race with economic function. This process involves the modernization of rural life, a rapid and balanced growth of urban activities...

...citizens of Chinese and Indian descent; the second 'prong' of the New Economic Policy openly aimed at 'restructuring Malaysian society to correct economic...eliminate the identification of race with economic function'.30 Though falling short of its targets, the policy succeeded to some extent in closing the...

...aimed to eradicate poverty irrespective of race; second, it intended to restructure Malaysian society so as to reduce and eventually eliminate the identification of race with economic function. Occupational division along racial lines was believed to be a root cause of economic inequality and...

...income levels and increasing employment opportunities for all Malaysians, irrespective of race; and (ii) accelerate the process of restructuring Malaysian...the identification of race with economic function (Government of Malaysia 1971). 2 Jayawardena (1980:430-50) claims that Fiji 1ndians who have had to...

...services especially designed to raise the living standards of the low income groups; (ii) accelerating the process of restructuring Malaysian society to...the identification of race with economic function. . . . The objective is to ensure that Malays and other indigenous people will become full partners...

...employment opportunities for all Malaysians, irrespective of race." The second aimed at "accelerating the process of restructuring Malaysian society to...eliminate the identification of race with economic function."25 It was assumed that the disparity between the economic and social positions of the Malays...

...the state with a vehicle for a more active role in economic affairs. The primary thrust of the NEP was to 'accelerate the process of restructuring Malaysian...the identification of race with economic function' (Government of Malaysia, 1971: 1). The state became the main instrument for this economic reorganisation....

...and increasing employment opportunities for all Malaysian-s irrespective of race" and to "restructure Malaysian society to correct economic imbalance so...eliminate the identification of race with economic functions" (Malaysia, 1981, p. 31). Achievement of the latter goal was to depend on positive discrimination...