Economics Malaysia

The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is the oldest multilateral financial institution currently in existence – it acts as a clearing ...

Women’s issues take centre stage in the latest issue of the IMF’s Finance and Development magazine (excerpt): Women at Work ...

Employment continued to strengthen in April 2013, with the economy creating 173k jobs (‘000): That puts the employment growth figure at ...

No, it’s not European debt; rather it’s Chinese deflation (excerpt): Chinese monetary policy failure “Fed tapering” seems to be...

Universities are like soooo last century: IMF Launches Online Economics Learning for Global Classroom In the virtual classroom ...

Mark Thoma on keeping the public sector involved in markets (excerpt): 7 Important Examples of How Markets Can Fail By MARK ...

Consumer price inflation continued to accelerate in May, rising to 1.8% from 1.7% in April (log annual and monthly changes): For once, i...

Guess which is the fastest growing region in the world after East Asia? Would you believe Sub-Saharan Africa? The “dark” continent isn’t a...

I’m ambivalent on the issue of home ownership – on the one hand, I recognise that society acknowledges the basic human right to adequate she...

This was announced yesterday at the 2014 Budget Consultation Session: 2014 Budget To Be Tabled In Parliament On Oct 25 PUTRAJA...

As a rule, I don’t allow guest posts or posts on behalf of other sites, but in this case I’m making an exception because I think financial l...

In the last round of NBER papers, Heckman and Raut find more evidence that pre-school education has a significant pay-off and worth putting ...