Structural Change and Urbanization: The Case of Peninsular Malaysia
Keywords:
Structural Change, Urbanization, MalaysiaAbstract
Structural change and urbanization are two key features of economic development. This study examines how urbanization has taken place during the different phases of structural change in Peninsular Malaysia. There is empirical evidence that urbanization – measured in terms of population growth at different level of aggregation – is driven by different economic sectors in the past one hundred years from 1911-2010. In the early stages of the country’s development, a succession of emphasis on different primary commodities – tin, rubber, palm oil – affected urbanization. Industrialization was a key driver of urbanization from 1960s to the 1980s. However, with deindustrialization since the 1990s, services began to assume a more important role.
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