Economics Malaysia

Not exactly an anti-climax, but pretty close (excerpt; emphasis added): Monetary Policy Statement At the Monetary Policy Commi...

Announced yesterday, among the first moves under the new Financial Sector Blueprint: Liberalisation measures to develop the domestic ...

Can you tell a rock to roll uphill? Unlike Canute, can you order the tide to turn back to sea? Will porcine meat animals suddenly develop wi...

The first meeting of 2012 is scheduled for today, and I honestly don’t expect any change in the policy stance. The new data coming in isn’t ...

Malaysia’s female labour participation rate is quite frankly a disgrace. But getting more women into the workforce comes up against a host o...

YB Tony Pua wants some questions answered (excerpt): Sweet Subsidies for Who? The Star published on its front page news yesterd...

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’m settling in and having fun at my new workplace, so I should begin blogging a bit more regularly soon. To be honest though, I might not h...

I’ll be quite busy until the end of next week – as much as taking as break as adjusting to a new working environment (moving jobs!). So post...

There is, as one commentator put it, more than one way to kill [sic] a cat. I’ve been open about my support for dropping petrol subsidies in...

Last month I highlighted a working paper on calculating the optimal tax rate, especially with reference to top income earners. One of the...

According to this new paper at the NBER, yes they do (abstract): The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student O...