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Paying more to avert the labour crunch in Malaysia
LABOUR crunch seems to feature prominently in the conversation among employers, even after the government has relaxed restrictions on hiring foreign labour. Employer organisations are even talking about prisoners and refugees…
A new era of ‘Look East’ would boost both Japan and Malaysia
The story of Malaysia’s Look East Policy is as much about Japan’s postwar relationship with Southeast Asia as it is about Kuala Lumpur’s search for its post-colonial place in the…
Critical Shifts Needed in Malaysia’s Economic Thinking
LABOUR IS FINITE, especially in the context of Malaysia which has not had a demographic dividend since two decades ago. Malaysian employers and policy makers need a paradigm shift to…
Rethinking our cities, housing and transport system
Let me refer back to my conversation with the aforementioned tycoon in part one of my essay. Paying the workers well by making structural changes to the labour market will…
Higher pay, higher productivity and higher level of technology
To deal with economic insecurity, the Malaysian state needs to confront some old assumptions and intervene with the aim to create a virtuous cycle of higher pay, higher technological adoption…
Understanding economic insecurity
Nearly 30 percent of Malaysians polled by Gallup in 2018 felt that they did not have enough money for food, while 23 percent reported not having sufficient money for shelter.…
Is Malaysia on the cusp of a second take-off?
If we get it right and at the same time get our acts together, when we look back 10 years down the road, 2023 may be remembered as the beginning…
Ending low pay
The Malaysian economy is at a crossroads. Indeed, Malaysia as a nation is at a crossroads. The most important question concerning the Malaysian economy is the presence of a huge…
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀: 𝟮𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗻
On 2 July 1997, Thai baht was attacked by speculators, which triggered the Asian Financial Crisis. Everything in Malaysia and Asia changed after that day. My life, along with that…
Four major challenges confronting us
I attended the Progressive Alliance conference titled “Asia’s Social Democratic New Deal for Peace, Democracy, Recovery, Sustainability” in KL over the weekend. The conference was officiated by DAP Secretary-General Sdr…
Rental Housing
This morning, I asked a supplementary question in the Johor State Assembly to the EXCO for Housing and Local Government Dato’ Haji Mohd Jafni bin Md Shukor on the question…
How will interest rate hike by the Fed impact us ?
Yesterday, Asia woke up to US Federal Reserve 0.75% rate hike, the largest since 1994. The Fed is trying to battle the highest inflation in four decades or so. Whereas…
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