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Author Khoo, Boo Teik, 1955- author.

Title The Making of Anwar Ibrahim's "Humane Economy"#x9D; by Khoo Boo Teik
Published Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, December 2020
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
December 2020

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Description 1 online resource (25 pages)
Series Trends in Southeast Asia, 0219-3213 ; TRS18/20
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Contents Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- The Making of Anwar Ibrahim's "Humane Economy" -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- The Making of Anwar Ibrahim's "Humane Economy"
Summary Anwar Ibrahim, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, 1993-98, and Opposition Leader, 2008-15 and since March 2020, is associated with two lasting, seemingly contradictory images. Those were of the young Anwar as a radical Islamist for whom economics seemed not to matter, and as a pro-market reformer during the 1997 East Asian financial crisis for whom Islam no longer mattered.Yet there was economics in the young Anwar's Islam and, conversely, Islam in the mature man's economics. Between them lay certain 'moral ambivalences' that occupied Anwar during the pre-crisis period when economic growth, prosperity and ambitions were dogged by rent-seeking, corruption and institutional degradation. Anwar had expressed various thoughts on 'Islam and economics', notably when he was President of Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM, or Malaysian Islamic Youth Movement), Minister of Finance (1991-98), and leader of the post-Reformasi opposition. His thoughts formed the core of a 'humane economy' that he envisioned and advocated upon his return to active politics from 2006 onwards. The vision of a 'humane economy' holds personal, ideological and political significance at a specific political juncture in Malaysian history
Notes Description based on print version record
SUBJECT Anwar Ibrahim, 1947- -- Philosophy
Anwar Ibrahim, 1947- fast
Subject Islam -- Economic aspects.
Economics -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Politics and government
Philosophy
Islam -- Economic aspects
Economics -- Religious aspects -- Islam
SUBJECT Malaysia -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Subject Malaysia
Form Electronic book
Author ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, publisher.
Project Muse. distributor.
ISBN 9789814951319
9789814951326
9814951315
9814951323