Economics Malaysia

The Malaysian government's policies on social welfare has been for the past decade been anchored on household income categories. We'...

My colleague Nurulhana wrote this for our internal blog. Since its self explanatory, I'll leave it here without comment and unedited. Si...

I'm going to dive deeper into this topic, because there are a number of inter-related issues that need to be highlighted. The data here ...

Despite the government determining the minimum wage to be hiked to RM1,500 by May 1, 2022, there's still debate on whether the timing/qu...

Part I dealt with some of the criticisms of the minimum wage. Part II here will look at some of the data around the impact on wages and pri...

So the government has finally announced a new revision to Malaysia's minimum wage, two years after the last one. This time though, it...

It's been a difficult three weeks, given what's going on in Eastern Europe. I grew up under the threat of the BOMB. I was born the y...

The US likes to go its own way on many things, from using the imperial system of measurement (feet, pounds, miles) to American Football. In ...

It's taken me this long to really delve into last week's GDP report, largely because I wanted to try something different (results fo...

What is driving inflation in Malaysia? For the last four months of 2021, the CPI jumped a full two points, or 1.6%, which is equivalent to a...

This has been the hot button topic of the year, pretty much everywhere around the globe. Inflation has accelerated in many countries, but at...

I wanted to start a discussion on inflation last night, but it took longer than I thought to compile the data (it's been a while). In th...