Economics Malaysia

The pace of my blogging has dropped off substantially the last couple of weeks, for which I apologise. I've been busy in Sarawak for the...

Last week’s February production report showed output growth fell as expected on an unadjusted basis, but also a bit more than I’m comfortabl...

…it’ll be a better year than you think. Seems I’m not the only one who thinks GDP growth this year will be pretty good. HSBC thinks Malaysia...

William White, Chairman of the Economic and Development Review Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and ex...

Hoisted from comments: Wenger J Khairy said... Dear Hisham H, I for one have not a clue what the NEM is neither is w...

Back during the tabling of the 2010 budget, the Government proposed a RM50 levy on each principal credit card and RM25 on supplementary card...

A little late this month, but better late than never as they say. As ever when faced with a major festival, currency in circulation (and h...

In exact counterpoint to my analysis of Malaysia’s demographics , Morgan Stanley (again! I love these guys) covers Singapore’s ageing work f...

Malaysia's New Economic Model: Making the Right Noise The market's and our expectations for the NEM have been low. However, wh...

The Department of Statistics released a preliminary assessment of February’s trade data last Friday, which is another unexpectedly new move...

Random musings, in no particular order: Changing education from “rote learning to creative and critical thinking” – I don’t think this...

First, for what is essentially a strategy paper, the New Economic Model is a hefty read. Not so much for the length (it runs to 209 pages), ...