My life and times : a memoir / Ramon V. Navaratnam
- Bib ID:
- 4969996
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Navaratnam, Ramon V
- Description:
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- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : Malaysian Institute of Management, 2010
- xv, 574 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9789839065428
- Full contents:
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- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. My childhood
- 2. The evacuation
- 3. The Japanese occupation (1941-1945)
- 4. My first job at 8
- 5. The growing-up years
- 6. Life at university (1954-1958)
- 7. Seeing a career
- 8. My career begins (1959)
- 9. Settling down (1961-1965)
- 10. At Harvard University
- 11. Back home after the riots and planning the NEP
- 12. My World Bank experience with McNamara (1971-1972)
- 13. European tour
- 14. Returning home
- 15. Commonwealth meeting in Ottawa, Canada (1973)
- 16. Tun Tan Siew Sin and Tun Abdul Razak and the NEP
- 17. Tun Hussein Onn becomes Prime Minister and Dr Mahathir Mohamad Deputy Prime Minister (1976)
- 18. The national language in education
- 19. Tun Hussein Onn pushes for the common fund
- 20. Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah's role in international finance
- 21. First budget dialogue (1976)
- 22. Winds of change in the 1980s
- 23. Family developments
- 24. Leadership by example
- 25. The proton saga
- 26. Cabinet reshuffle (1984)
- 27. Commonwealth Finance Ministers' meeting in the Maldives
- 28. Leaving the Treasury (1986)
- 29. Our sons' education
- 30. Privatisation policy
- 31. My role in the Ministry of Transport
- 32. Negotiations with the British and others
- 33. CEO : managing Malayan Railways and R.T.D.
- 34. Retirement from the Government (1989)
- 35. CEO of Bank Buruh : reorganising the Workers' Bank
- 36. After Bank Buruh
- 37. My heart bypass in 1994
- 38. The Sunway Group
- 39. Trade mission to South Africa (1996)
- 40. My National Service continued
- 41. Tamil schools neglected
- 42. My other community services
- 43. Unity is strength and my escalator theory
- 44. Malaysian high technology and LID
- 45. African dialogue (1997) and my safari experience
- 46. My philosophy of life
- 47. The national vision 2020
- 48. My late sixties and seventies
- 49. The end
- Appendix
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Library's copy signed by author.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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