Economics Malaysia

VoxEU has a new e-book out on the way forward for commodity producing economies (excerpt): Rethinking the macroeconomics of resource-...

The NEER and REER page has been updated , as has the Google Docs version. Summary A late CPI release by Taiwan caused this update to be ...

P. Gunasegaran demonstrates – yet again – that he doesn’t understand exchange rates (excerpt): How successive governments impoverish...

The Deputy PM thinks middlemen are the culprits for high prices (excerpt): Zahid: Higher prices of goods and services the work of ...

Nobody can deny inflation in food prices, and seafood is a major contributor to that. The biggest reason behind seafood price inflation is a...

The NEER and REER page has been updated , as has the Google Docs version. Summary This update is a little late for a few reasons. First,...

A quick note on yesterday’s GDP report. The date brought the growth numbers for 2017 to a gratifyingly satisfying conclusion (log annual cha...

My original take here . From a Tweetstorm I read this morning: So as someone who's covered monthy food budgets with food stamps let...

The OPR was hiked 25bps today to 3.25% (excerpt): Monetary Policy Statement At the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting tod...

I came across this on Twitter last night – Mauritius is taking on the challenge of implementing a negative income tax (excerpt): Nega...

Caught this yesterday (excerpt): Selangor, Penang tax hike woes ONE part of Pakatan Harapan's manifesto covers cost of liv...

I support this (excerpt): Time to introduce a RM100 public transportation pass in the Klang Valley In October 2017, I had writ...