A Post-Industrial Future for Penang?
By Zairil Khir Johari
August 2012 FEATURE
There have been calls to transform Penang into a services-driven economy and scale back its manufacturing industry. But the global economy, says Penang Institute CEO Zairil Khir Johari, shows that this would be a grave mistake.The advent of the digital era, characterized by seamless and instantaneous transfer of information and unprecedented levels of global interconnectedness, has seen a paradigm shift in social, political and economic strategies worldwide.In fact, it is commonly said that the world has entered into “the knowledge...
Zairil Khir Johari
is the Penang state executive councillor for public works, utilities and flood mitigation, and the state assemblyman for Tanjong Bunga.
