Pada November 3-4 2003 saya telah membentangkan satu kertas kerja bertajuk "Globalisation and Social Protection In Malaysia" dalam International Conference on “Institutional and Policy Diversity - Its Role in Economic Development”, di Debrecen, Hungary. Seminar ini dianjurkan oleh Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Debrecen, Hungary.
Berikut ialah ulasan/pandangan penganjur mengenai kertas yang dibentangkan itu:
A. H. Roslan from School of Economics, Universiti Utara Malaysia concentrated on the social side of transition from traditional to modern society with his co-author M. Mustafa: the transformation of such a society causes the social protection provided by the society to cease functioning. This raises the possibility of government intervention to provide social protection. But we have to interpret social protection in a broader sense than economic politicians often do. It is not just remunerative aid, but a state intervention to raise the capabilities of a person. The authors analyzed in depth the performance of the fast developing Malaysian economy, the average speed of growth has been more than six percent for the past forty years, and evaluated the efficiency of the social protection of the state as it tried to take over the role of the traditional family. One can draw the conclusion that the trends of social change of the Malaysian economy and society (an aging population, the transformation of social norms, a rapidly changing external environment, and the bigger possibility of shocks coming from outside, but also the growing political pressure for changes) make the current social protection system inadequate. Because of the fall of the traditional-informal social protection system, the state has to play a key role in constructing a modern one.
Artikel ini juga telah diterbitkan dalam Malaysian Management Journal. Lihat Roslan, A.H. and M. Mustaffa (2006). “Globalisation, Unemployment and Poverty: The Need for a New Perspective on Social Protection in Malaysia”. MALAYSIAN MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, Vol. 10, No. 1 & 2 (December).
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