Concluding Remarks
Although Malaysia has been successful in reducing poverty, income disparities andeconomic imbalances during the 1971-1990 period, the problem of growing disparityin income remains and will continue to be one of the major challenges facing Malaysia in the future. To assess the progress towards equitable development in Malaysia in the future, and to formulate policies to ensure its attainment, it is vital not only the existing income and related surveys need to be improved to take into account some important variables that may impinge on the progress towards achieving socially tolerable income disparities, but also to make such information accessible to researchers/scholars so that they too could contribute towards better understanding of the issues involved in this important policy issue.
