Wawasan 2020

"Vision 2020" or in Malay " Wawasan 2020 " is a 1991 fine from the baptism of long-term and large-scale project of the State of Malaysia, with which he seeks to count in 2020 to the fully developed first industrial nations of the world - on a par with countries like the UK, France, Germany and Japan.

Structure

The National Framework project that Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, the longtime prime minister, let develop, divided into approximately 70 individual projects, including

• The development of research and high technology,
• Expansion of education and higher education systems,
• The electrification of the country, u.v.a. under which the Bakun Dam project was started to plan,

• Putrajaya for the administration of the State
• The Multimedia Super Corridor for information technology
• Or Langkawi island for tourism.

Promotion

The state promotes projects through effective land transfer, with tax policy and a gentle coercion - by, for example, industrial companies, who want to settle in Malaysia are advised to also create holiday destinations for their employees. The companies are such as to shareholders of hotel facilities motivated to Langkawi, or a participation in such crossover projects is enforced by approval procedures.

The national importance and international response

Wawasan 2020 was internationally little attention, but it plays in the daily lives of Malaysians have a certain role, since the right autocratically governed State whose policy is based on the highly successful city -state of Singapore, at this major project " can not loose ". The project has already run for 15 years and since it was created in just under 30 years, is now (2006) half.

This intense state tracking of the project can be studied at the undulating ups and downs of the activities for the Bakun project: as in the Asian crisis in 1996, the activities came to a standstill, as the contracts awarded for turbines and machinery at European companies were stopped and canceled, many thought, now it is over with the big plans of Dr. M, as he is called the Malaysian short, and it would be over with its Vision Project 2020. However, with the availability of new perspectives in the emergence of new economic boom survived the Bakun project, under new leadership, even back on.

Organization in "Public Private Partnership "

The State seeks wherever it seems possible that a sponsor of the individual major projects in private hands on. This often Malaysian corporate conglomerates come to the course, have the ethnic Chinese family or clan roots. However, to be backing one of the Vision Projects, an intensive co-operation with the Malaysian authorities is needed, and the influence of the native Malays, the Bumiputras on the happenings in the multiethnic state of Malaysia should not be underestimated. Chance also gave Chinese companies already support their respective Vision project, done so in 1996 Bakun dam.

The score

The assessment of the Wawasan 2020 project is rather ambiguous and differs depending on the national or international point of view. Many observers of Malaysia appreciate it as unrealistic to be able to achieve the goal of a fully developed industrial state already for the year 2020 because it lacked the Malaysians to too many conditions. On the other hand, however, is not to overlook the fact that in some regions of the state was just at the flagship projects of Vision 2020, such as tourism on Langkawi, significantly develop further.

Other projects, such as the automotive industry, did not come out timid internationalization testing; hardly anyone speaks outside Malaysia or by the car brand Proton that he tried to European expansion, for example, is deemed to have failed.

• Economy (Malaysia)