Latest Columns/Op-Eds
Children and coronavirus: A social protection view
The recently announced initiatives do not address the burdens that poor families with children have to disproportionately shoulder due to Covid-19.
Might #Undi18 disempower the youth?
Prof Wong warns that the influx of eight million new voters will worsen the malapportionment of parliamentary constituencies.
Closing in on a solution
Prof Leong Choon Heng gives the reasons he is optimistic that we will be able to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Little things also need to be done to draw in tourists
NEXT year is Visit Malaysia 2020. It will certainly be an excellent way for us to celebrate an important milestone...
Decentralising Malaysia’s education system
The next stage in Malaysia’s catching-up process requires that economic growth...
Decentralisation – the key strategy for New Malaysia
Malaysia has once again been given the chance to re-make itself...
Caution and foresight necessary with ECRL
The East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) is a 688.3km-long double track rail system planned to be commissioned in 2024...
Should weak export performance be a concern?
Malaysia’s just released March export performance can be viewed from either a glass half full or half empty perspective...
Should businesses worry about middle income trap?
Of the many challenges facing the Malaysian economy, the middle income trap has become an overarching theme in the country’s growth narrative...
Competing in product space and economic complexity
A long-standing and dominant idea about how industries prosper and countries become rich is they are able to transfer resources from activities...
Consumer spending key to economy’s resilience
Malaysia’s higher-than-expected gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 5.6 per cent in the first quarter has been accompanied by the further strengthening...
SME digital economic outlook
In Malaysia’s dynamic business landscape, SMEs can become disruptors, be disrupted or continue to operate in the business-as-usual (BAU) ways...
Embracing SDGs makes good business sense
A year has passed since the momentous 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was adopted by 193 countries...
Look beyond Budget 2017 to boost growth, competitiveness
The 2017 Budget that will be unveiled tomorrow has riveted the nation’s attention more so this year than before...
Budget measures to spur investment, employment
Budget measures to spur investment, employment Like the snake-and-ladder board game, after a ...