Economics Malaysia

A new IMF staff discussion note takes on global inequality (excerpt): Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A Global Perspect...

Apropos to my previous post, the International Energy Agency has a downloadable report on the future of LNG in Asia. You can get it here . ...

MISIF wants the government to maintain gas subsidies (excerpt, emphasis added): Steel makers oppose gas price hike, wants govt to ste...

The Economist has an essay on one of the biggest social and demographic changes in history (excerpt): Badly educated men in rich coun...

My friend Lars Christensen has a good post (video here ) on oil prices and Middle East currency regimes (excerpt): Talking to my phone:...

Again, a couple of weeks late, but this is interesting enough to talk about, even at this late date. With GST implemented in April, you ca...

Lovely, lovely post (excerpt): 3 practical things, and one abstract thing economists could do to improve economic coverage in the med...

This was supposed to have come out a couple of weeks ago, but I ran out of time before leaving on a holiday. Just some quick thoughts on th...

I haven’t had much of a chance to write this week, with various things on my calendar (I’ll have some thoughts on the 11MP tomorrow, along w...

Well, well, well (log annual and monthly changes; 2010:100):

One of the big themes over the past year has been the strength of the US Dollar, which has appreciated against currencies and commodities si...

Yesterday’s MPC decision came as no surprise, with the OPR held steady at 3.25% (excerpt): Monetary Policy Statement At the Mon...