>By 2004 HDR, it's 59, below Russia. That's mainly from the combined
>enrolment rate and the inequality, I think -- have to go back to look
>at the way the various components are totalled up. Our gini is
>whopping high at 0.46 (on gross household income, so not comparable to
>India's which is on consumption).
>On health indicators, it's all pretty good -- although the HDR
>suggests that it's not for the GDP pc (PPP) level, indicated by the
>negative result of (GDP pc rank - HDI rank), which some may want to
>use as the basis of an argument that the PPP rankings are somewhat
>faulty. Incidentally, the negative result of the same calculus for
>India is larger (-10, vs -2 for Malaysia).
>
>Specifically, life expectancy at 73, IMR at below 10, toddler
>mortality (1-5) at well under 1. Practically universal clean water
>supply and approaching universal sanitation. Basically, the disease
>pattern is now that of diseases of lifestyle, with that as the major
>causes of death.
What kind of economic strategy or mass participation has enabled Malaysia to achieve very high level of human development?
Ulhas