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.
Sustainability
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…
Dissecting the Political Business Matrix of Municipal Waste Management in Malaysia
In most people’s views, rubbish is waste; something that when it is out of our sight is out of our mind. Yet, whether we like it or not, from the day we are born we have been producing rubbish and wastes; which means waste management is a major issue to be tackled…
Private Healthcare in Malaysia Gains Strength Against Public Healthcare
The federal government’s share of investments in our healthcare sector has been lagging behind the private sector in 2012 when compared to 2001…