Economics Malaysia

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...

Monday’s industrial production figures paint a picture of recovery (log annual and monthly changes; seasonally adjusted; 2000=100): Ma...

Back in 2011, I remember the budget coming out and the complete disbelief at the government’s 2012 growth forecast. From economists to the ...

Yikes (log annual and monthly changes; seasonally adjusted; 2000=100):

The numbers aren't as spiffy as the out-of-this-world export growth numbers, but they’re pretty respectable (log annual and monthly chan...

The March numbers that came out on Monday didn’t show a full picture of health, but did confirm that 1Q2014 growth is going to be pretty dec...

Last week’s IPI numbers gave me a headache – it’s part of another rebasing exercise, this time to 2010, which required a bit of work to spli...

Yesterday’s IPI report confirms the acceleration in economic growth at the end of last year (log annual and monthly changes; seasonally adju...

Industrial output appears to be moderating a little (log annual and monthly changes; seasonally adjusted):

I did a series of posts along these lines ages ago, but as an overall summary, the following post from David Giles covers much the same grou...

The September numbers aren’t nearly as pretty as the improvement in external trade (log annual and monthly changes; seasonally adjusted; 200...

Too good to last? The IPI has come back down to earth (log annual and monthly changes; seasonally adjusted):

Something is in the wind. US Purchasing Managers Indexes zoomed up in June, and lo and behold, Malaysia’s IPI is following suit (log annual ...

After some fairly unenticing numbers in 1Q2013, industrial production in April showed some signs of life (log annual and monthly changes; se...

I’m not an expert in sample design, but I think I’m qualified to comment on this (excerpt): Opposition manipulated Umcedel study, cla...

This is going to be a technical post – feel free to skip to the end if you’re not comfortable with the math. There’s apparently some quest...

I’ve been skipping a lot of data releases this month because work, and because of course with the elections a month away, there are more imp...

Yesterday’s industrial production numbers had some good, some bad (log annual and monthly changes; seasonally adjusted; 2000=100): The...

Next up from last week’s data releases, is December’s industrial production numbers. It’s only slightly better than the external trade data ...

I feel like banging my head against the wall (excerpt): Study shows Barisan expected to win GE13 KUALA LUMPUR: Barisan Nasional...