Economics Malaysia

People are starting to see one of the weaknesses in the ETP: A lesson from brain drain’s gain and pain SUPPLY and demand is th...

I didn’t comment on the World Bank report on the issue of Brain Drain in Malaysia because it didn’t seem necessary. Apart from the weaknesse...

The cabinet’s turned chicken: RON95, diesel and LPG will not cost more PUTRAJAYA: Prices of RON95 petrol, diesel and liquefied...

I don’t think I’ll take this as proof positive that labour compensation has lagged productivity globally but Dani Rodrik sends us to an int...

Well this month, I finally got something right on employment – the higher number of jobs created in the last couple of months has been sus...

Along with yesterday’s GDP report, BNM has also reduced the already low barriers for overseas investment: Liberalisation on direct in...

I admit I expected better. So did the consensus opinion, which was looking at between 4.7%-5.0%. But we’re still looking at a somewhat respe...

Yesterday’s report showed annual inflation accelerating to 3.2% (log annual and monthly changes; 2000=100): Y-o-Y Core inflation has cli...

What is it with the heads of the Bretton Wood Institutions? First Paul Wolfowitz of the World Bank got the hook a few years back after abusi...

In my recent post on GST, one commentator suggested that it would be a fairer tax simply because it would bring in all those who aren’t part...

I swear I’m not an English grammar nazi – really, I’m not! But you’d expect a government report (even if it comes from an ostensibly indep...

If you noticed some posts missing, Blogger.com had some maintenance issues on Friday – posts from Wednesday onwards were temporarily pulled ...