Malaysia’s minimum wage conundrum

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Lee Hwok Aun provides a rebuttal to those opposing minimum wage in Malaysia.

Malaysia Economic Monitor: Growth through innovation

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The Malaysia Economic Monitor – Growth through Innovation provides policy recommendations on the necessary economic reforms that Malaysia must undertake to remain competitive.

What is new in Malaysia’s New Economic Model?

Philip Schellekens outlines Najib’s New Economic Model and argues that the NEM demonstrates the clear recognition that Malaysia needs to introduce deep-reaching structural reforms to boost growth.

Malaysia – Productivity and investment report

In the decades prior to the Asian financial crisis, the Malaysian economy experienced rapid growth and a significant structural transformation. It went from an economy that relied on agriculture and commodities to one dominated by manufacturing and services. Since then, however, Malaysia’s growth has slowed to a level well below its key competitors in Asia, including the large labor-surplus economies of China and India.

Malaysia – Najib wavers over undoing affirmative action policies

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The Economist is not confident that Najib Razak has the resolve to undo 40 years of affirmative action that underpins UMNO’s success.

Malaysia Economic Monitor – Repositioning for growth

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The first diagnosis of the Malaysian economy by the World Bank East Asia and Pacific team.

Malaysia: Making government procurement transparent

Shankaran Nambiar discusses the impact of flawed government procurement measures on the welfare of Malaysians and the Malaysian economy.