Economics Malaysia

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’ll be going on leave for a short break during these school holidays, so there won’t be any further posts until the middle of next week. In...

The PM will be unveiling the annual reports for the GTP and ETP live on RTM1, TV3 and Astro Awani tonight at 8.30pm. If you’re interested in...

Economists do forecasts – or at least, people think economists have some kind of competitive advantage in forecasting economic variables. Bu...

There’s a lot of criticisms aimed at the ETP’s (actually the NEM’s) income targets – I’ve been one of them, at least insofar as how it’s bee...

From the transcript of Monday’s press briefing on the World Economic Outlook Update for Asia, with Anoop Singh, Director of the IMF’s Asia a...

I got tipped off about an analysis of the ETP last week, which makes some of the same points I made two years ago (excerpt): A Critiq...

I wrote about DS Anwar’s speech regarding the ETP a week ago , but my comments were based entirely on the coverage by the Malaysian Insider ...

My apologies for the long silence over the past week – I’ve been on holiday, and haven’t checked my mail for a while, or been too bothered a...

So, I was sitting in the audience yesterday, with some mixed feelings. On the one hand I’m troubled by the flaws in the worldview presented ...

Pemandu will be commemorating the 1st anniversary of the launching of the Economic Transformation Plan today at the Sime Darby Convention Ce...

File this under, “Duh, why didn’t I think of that”. But pay close attention to the last couple of paragraphs (excerpt, emphasis added): ...

Decided on in the Wednesday cabinet meeting, we’ve got another National Key Result Area to go along with the six already in place: PM...

I spent this morning at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center listening to Idris Jala talking about progress on the ETP. Beyond admiring his sa...

Last night there was a debate hosted by the LSE Alumni Association, on the key challenges for the Economic Transformation Program (ETP). Mod...

I haven’t had the time to read it yet (watch for an analysis later this week), but the NEM Part 2 Document was launched on Friday, and can b...

There’s a raging controversy in the aftermath of the budget regarding the spate of big mega-projects that were announced – the yet-to-be aw...

In case you missed it, the videos are on Youtube . Sorry, they’re in Bahasa Malaysia only:

So much for staying away from blogging. It was a little over a year ago that I wrote a post on what the Malaysian economy would look like ...

Hot off the press . If you still want a hard copy, MPH will be carrying it nationwide from tomorrow.