Telecommunications Reforms In Malaysia

Does Sequencing Matter? Regulation and Privatization in Telecommunications Reforms

The question of the most effective order of reforming state-owned industries has been hotly debated over the years. In the early 1990s, many western advisers encouraged Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union to privatize firms quickly under the assumption that market institutions would develop once firms were privately owned. Thinking since then has emphasized the importance of ...

English Language Teaching ( ELT ) Curriculum Reforms in Malaysia

Bawani Selvaraj / Voice of Academia Vol.5 No.1 2010

Benchmarking and effects of reforms in the fixed telecommunications industry: A DDF approach

Our article proposes an application of the Directional Distance Function (DDF) approach to the fixed telecommunication field. In particular, we present an efficiency evaluation of European fixed telecom operators, where the DDF tool allows for asymmetric treatment of outputs characterized by a different degree of desirability: broadband lines (a market still in expansion, related to a welfare-i...

Plasma Fractionation in Malaysia

Reforms

Extrapolating to our specialty, and having been examiner for both M.Ch and the DNB exit exams, at various places, I find that there is a huge difference in the standard and the conduct of these exams. I believe that the MCI is also trying to standardize exit exams, but we as a specialty and as the apex body of that specialty, should put together a standardized exit exam, to be passed by all can...