Malaysia’s Rationale and Response to South China Sea Tensions
Malaysia’s low key attitude towards recent incidents and recommendations on how to balance between defending Malaysia’s national interests vs diffusing tensions..
Sustainability
Uncovering the Plight of Lower-Income Malaysia
Contrasting living wage requirements against median household income and wages, this paper issues a strong argument for the need for the provision of a stronger system of social protection and government’s role in putting forward policies that stimulate job and wage growth in forward-looking sectors.
復工新常態下的軍政、訓政及憲政 | The new normal post COVID-19
Coordination between government and businesses becomes important to reopening the coronavirus-closed economy while meeting public health goals.
From pandemics to the climate crisis
Covid-19 and climate change are both quintessential collective action problems, where inaction on the part of any one nation can create adverse consequences around the world.
Does Big Tech Hold One of the Keys to Restarting the Economy?
In this day and age, where most of the population in the hardest hit countries have a smartphone on them at all times, the technological opportunities for contact tracing are vast and might be key to restarting economy for post-Covid-19.
Building resiliency into Malaysia’s long term food security
Covid-19 crisis has alerted the government to embrace a truly diverse, modern agricultural sector, one that can ensure long-term resiliency in Malaysia’s food security.
Covid-19: Revisiting the economic stimulus after the world woke up
To cushion the sudden global downturn, the government need to double down on measures announced, expand scope of application to more workers and businesses, and do it quickly.
Economy needs immediate stimulus package, with eye on the long-term
While the stimulus package primarily aims to tide over workers and businesses through tumultuous short-term economic currents, the government should also evaluate these measures with an eye on the long term, and look to promote a transformation of the economy to new growth sectors and higher productivity, and prepare the workforce for the future.
Jumping the Curve: National electric buses and the future of Malaysia’s public transport
Malaysia needs to jump the curve to a new idea of improving our stagnant public transport system by embarking on a bus-based system, riding on a two-pronged growth strategy…
Rakyat feeling the brunt of higher expenditures, despite Minister claiming incomes rising
You can’t eat GDP You can’t feed a family with GDP. You can’t live in a rising share market. You can’t give your kids a better life because your company’s C.E.O. was able to give himself a big raise…