Malaysia
One of the better-documented emerging markets. Four strands: the Bumiputera policy that shapes every deal, the party-linked and government-linked ownership structure, the 1997-98 capital-controls episode, and 1MDB, now the best-documented emerging-market fraud of its decade.
8 books · 1 people behind it
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- Billion Dollar WhaleTom Wright, Bradley Hope, 2018
- Asian GodfathersJoe Studwell, 2007
- Malaysia's Political Economy: Politics, Patronage and ProfitsEdmund Terence Gomez, Jomo K. S., 1997
The people behind it 1
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Journalists 1
Books 8
Edmund Terence Gomez, Jomo K. S. · 1997 · The canonical mapping of party-linked ownership across corporate Malaysia.
Joe Studwell · 2007 · How Malaysian and regional tycoons make money from licences and rents rather than products.
Tom Wright, Bradley Hope · 2018 · The 1MDB looting, and the banks, auditors and funds that waved it through.
Mahathir bin Mohamad · 1970 · Insider primary source: the argument that became the New Economic Policy and Bumiputera quotas.
Jomo K. S. · 2001 · The 1997-98 crisis and the heterodox capital-control response, analysed properly.
Mahathir bin Mohamad · 2011 · Memoir by the architect of the industrial policy and the capital controls.
Edmund Terence Gomez, Thirshalar Padmanabhan, Norfaryanti Kamaruddin, Sunil Bhalla, Fikri Fisal · 2017 · Who actually controls the GLCs that dominate the local market.
Clare Rewcastle Brown · 2018 · First-hand account by the journalist who broke the 1MDB story.