Economics Malaysia

Inflation? What inflation? (log annual and monthly changes; 2000=100): The annual rate of increase across all three of my inflation meas...

Malaysia is pretty poor at doing R&D. Spending relative to GDP is by any standards low; so are the number of researchers relative to the...

The numbers aren't as spiffy as the out-of-this-world export growth numbers, but they’re pretty respectable (log annual and monthly chan...

A commentator sent me this link (excerpt): How our Winner Take-All Market Deepen Income Inequality while Decaying Our Education Syste...

I’m not going to tire of saying this – the first few months of last year were so awful that all the numbers coming in this year look great b...

Here’s a tip for Inland Revenue – even giving the illusion of choice will reduce tax avoidance and under-declaration of income (excerpt): ...

I’ve always been somewhat leery of the notion that high public debt results in slower economic growth. Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-Firs...

These guys have waaaay too much time on their hands (excerpt): World Cup 2014 Special Brazil set to succeed on the pitch …bu...

Growth and taxation – it seems like a contradiction in terms. Taxation tends to create economic distortions, affecting decisions on consumpt...

If there’s anything that will tell you the economy isn’t quite as good as the 1Q2014 numbers indicate, it should be employment (‘000): N...

There’s a link? There is a metaphorical one, according to Stephen Gordon (excerpt): Action bias and the political economy of penalty ...

The CPI numbers for April were released late on Wednesday, and they point to benign inflationary pressure (log annual and monthly changes; 2...