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...
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...
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...
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
Like the snake-and-ladder board game, after a steady climb in the global competitiveness ranking to 18th position last year from 25th position in 2012, the recently released Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017 by the World Economic Forum (WEF) shows Malaysia’s ranking had slid back to where i
Inflation dynamics and its effects on economy
After nearly two years of low consumer prices and falling producer prices, their steady rise in the first quarter of this year suggests that higher inflation...
EMD economies bracing for more challenges
While the recent surge in exports and strengthening demand across most economies have buoyed expectations that the global economy is on an upward growth...
Globalisation marches on
While United States President Donald Trump’s threats of border taxes, immigration curbs and America First policies are seen as a roll-back of globalisation...
Embracing automation, innovation and disruptive technologies
The planned launch of the world’s first Digital Free Trade Zone in Malaysia in March this year has sparked interest not only among the wider public as consumers but also...
