Economics Malaysia

The US likes to go its own way on many things, from using the imperial system of measurement (feet, pounds, miles) to American Football. In ...

It's taken me this long to really delve into last week's GDP report, largely because I wanted to try something different (results fo...

What is driving inflation in Malaysia? For the last four months of 2021, the CPI jumped a full two points, or 1.6%, which is equivalent to a...

This has been the hot button topic of the year, pretty much everywhere around the globe. Inflation has accelerated in many countries, but at...

I wanted to start a discussion on inflation last night, but it took longer than I thought to compile the data (it's been a while). In th...

A reporter messaged me the other day. With inflation rising, there was apparently concern in "some quarters" that we could see def...

A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away...I started this blog. It's been 13 years to the day that my first post went live. I neve...

So much for writing regularly again. No sooner did I commit to it, I got loaded with a whole load of extra responsibilities. As a result, t...

Nicholas Freeland takes us through the preconditions needed for poverty targeting to work (excerpt): Poor targeting: a response to Pa...

This is hopelessly unscientific, but it's an interesting exercise, and is a useful starting point for understanding what goes into the...

I was on BFM yesterday, talking about UM's new Belanjawanku reference budget: Your browser does not support native audio, but you can ...

With all due respect to the Minister, I think he gets it wrong here (excerpt): Minister: New index to reflect ‘real’ cost of living ...