Focusing on Malaysia's shifting economic profile and position, this book investigates a range of new developments impacting on growth, such as the effects of the digital economy on jobs creation and the threats of environmental degradation and trade protectionism.  In developing the debate around the importance of achieving high economic growth through various government initiatives, the chapters discuss a number of issues, including: 

• trade and innovation economics 
• capital flight risk 
• financial development 
• income inequality 
• fiscal policy sustainability  
• agricultural economy

A leading team of Malaysian economics and business scholars offer new insights and perspectives to scholars and researchers working in the fields of economic policy, developing economics and East Asian studies, who are interested in the multiple challenges facing this fast-moving economy.

"This volume explores how Malaysia can achieve inclusive growth through economic areas like trade, innovation, efficiency, and fiscal policy, as well as how specific areas of development contribute to inclusive growth, such as foreign direct investment and the rural community economy. It addresses how foreign capital, triadic patent propensity, and intellectual property rights protection can assist in inclusive growth; market risk and the effect of efficiency on market risk in Malaysia; the role of human capital and capital flight risk; the impact of foreign direct investment and financial development on income inequality; inclusive distribution and the Malaysian Inclusive Growth Index; the role of rubber price volatility in economic development; and the importance of fiscal policy in inclusive growth. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution." - (protoview.com)