Economics Malaysia

This actually came out last week, but I’ve been too bum lazy to touch on it. But the results, as preliminary as they are, yield some pretty ...

Believe it or not, the empirical evidence on the effect of corruption on economic growth isn't clear. The same can also be said for demo...

Bloomberg/Businessweek has been running a series of articles over the past couple of weeks looking at the human costs of gold’s popularity. ...

A little over six months ago, there was quite a bit of debate on the adequacy of Malaysia’s inflation measures (see here and here ). For ma...

After last month’s “exciting” little excursion due to the hike in tobacco excise duty, things have settled down on the inflation front. Eve...

No question that things are looking up. Today’s economic indicators report from the Department of Statistics underscores the argument that 3...

After the pause in 3Q 2010, it looks as if the Malaysian economy is accelerating again. So much for labour supply constraints …employment ha...

Menzie Chinn at Econbrowser sends us to the World Economic Forum’s Financial Development Report 2010 , which has a nice broad summary of ca...

Well, I’m back from my break, and catching up on events. In the meantime I’ll be getting rid of the backlog of posts that I’ve been meaning ...

The report for this October’s industrial production indexes gives grounds for some optimism. You’re not going to see it from the annual grow...

I’ll be on leave and travelling for a couple of weeks, so posts this week and next will be pretty sporadic (as you’ve probably already notic...

This is the first commentary on the gold market that actually made sense to me: About those high gold prices ...As far as I kno...