Impak pembangunan infrastruktur ke atas pembangunan komuniti penduduk di Daerah Pendang dan Kubang Pasu, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia

• Main Authors: Yusoff, Noraniza, Talib, Azlizan, Othman, Yusuf
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: College of Law, Government and International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia 2011
• Subjects: HC Economic History and Conditions
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/11916/1/10.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/11916/; http://www.jgd.uum.edu.my/

Infrastructure development in an area intended to improve the standard of living, including the increase in revenue, an increase in employment status and education. Thus the infrastructure impact study on the development of communities in the District of Kubang Pasu and Pendang focusing on several objectives of which are first to examine the impact of infrastructure on the develop ment of communities in the District of Kubang Pasu and Pendang and identify relationship between the recipient of the effects of demographic aspects.Form of quantitative research is conducted on 366 respondents in the four village in the District of Kubang Pasu and four village in the District Pendang using the survey form.The results showed that respondents living standard of the are a is still low in terms of income, employment and educational stat us.The study also showed that the less educated and self-employed less use some facilities provided, especially communication facilities.Based on Frishchmann theory, infrastructure less impact on productive and community less ability to share infrastructure.Low economic and social conditions may also be associated with positive externalities namely when an individual and firm that decided not to receive the full benefit of the result in infrastructure development.As a whole based on the expression 5 and 6 of development theory that affected by infrastructure proposed major shift in government spending towards infrastructure that will generate possible effect through existence adequate high efficiency level of public investment.If efficiency level of investment is low then direct impact of public infrastructure on output quite limited.