Measuring the Determinants for Differentiation in Village Economic Performance in Rural Malaysia
Abstract
In rural Malaysia, the variation of villages has its unique economic backgrounds as well as the differentiation in its village economic performance. The marginalised village often faces many challenges in achieving socio-economic sustainability, especially those who having low economic performance. However, there are also other villages were having a different situation of economic performance level. This mosaic of rural village’s situations appears a query on the endogenous and exogenous factors that affects this kind of pattern in economic performance and does the rate of economic performance varying among the villages in rural areas. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the factors for differentiation in village economic performance in rural Malaysia. Besides that, the evaluation of factor’s significance towards the village economic performance according to five capitals, namely economic, environmental, cultural, human and social is one of key analysis in this research. This paper discusses the methodology used in this study which was implemented on the six selected villages in six different rural regions surrounding the Johor state as the key spatial component. Finally, this paper reveals the key findings on the identification of factors and its significance towards village economic performance in rural Malaysia.
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26 December 2017
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978-1-80296-950-4
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Future Academy
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Technology, smart cities, digital construction, industrial revolution 4.0, wellbeing & social resilience, economic resilience, environmental resilience
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Samsudin, N. A., Misnan, S. H., & Rashid*, M. F. (2017). Measuring the Determinants for Differentiation in Village Economic Performance in Rural Malaysia. In P. A. J. Wahid, P. I. D. A. Aziz Abdul Samad, P. D. S. Sheikh Ahmad, & A. P. D. P. Pujinda (Eds.), Carving The Future Built Environment: Environmental, Economic And Social Resilience, vol 2. European Proceedings of Multidisciplinary Sciences (pp. 68-76). Future Academy. https://doi.org/10.15405/epms.2019.12.7