Poverty eradication - An economic and social needs for national transformation

By Tan Thai Soon

1. Poverty eradication should be based on economic and social needs, rather than based on ethnicity (majority or minority) or political power (national or states).

2. Poverty eradication that based on ethnicity and political factors always lead to inefficiency and ineffectiveness. This could results in some poor ethnic groups and some states become less develops.

3. "Ethnicity plays an ambiguous role in the great transformation" (Bates, 1999)

4. Poverty eradication through education systems and social reforms helps to transform the economic resources into human capital resources; for national transformation we need to maximize all possible human capital resources.

5. Malaysian economy urgently need a new model (policy) and new concept (implementation).