Has Malaysia Built Data Centres or Someone Else’s Profits?
Malaysia is attracting and building data-centre capacity rapidly, but it has yet to show that the productive domestic layer needed to convert that infrastructure into recurring Malaysian business value, skilled work and exportable digital services is developing at the same pace. Q2 growth and the data-centre boom Malaysia’s economy expanded 5.8% year-on-year in the second […]
When the Price of a Bag of Fertiliser Becomes a National Security Question.
Why Malaysia’s food-security risk begins upstream, long before the supermarket shelf Malaysia’s food-security risk does not begin at the supermarket shelf. It begins much earlier, at the point where farmers decide whether they can still afford to apply enough fertiliser for the next planting season. That is the real lesson from the recent disruption in […]
Malaysian Economic Framework Review – MADANI Economy: “Empowering the People”
The new economic framework in Malaysia, “MADANI Economy: Empowering the People,” was launched on 27th July 2023, with two main focuses: restructuring the economy to elevate Malaysia as a leading Asian economy and improve the quality of life for all Malaysians. The vision aims to ‘Raise the Ceiling’, which involves elevating the country’s economic status […]
Introducing the Progressive Wage Model in Malaysia
The “MADANI Economy: Empowering the People” Framework “The success of economic structural reforms should be assessed in terms of how far it can create more jobs with meaningful wages for all Malaysians”, Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced when he launched the MADANI Economy: Rakyat Empowerment framework on 27 July 2023. He acknowledged that […]
Exploring the NIMP 2030
NIMP 2030 – Overview “The NIMP 2030 is designed to drive Malaysia’s trajectory as a global leader in industrial development, extend the domestic linkages to create wealth across the nation as well as strengthen its position in the global value chain,” stated Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (PMX), as he launched the new policy on September […]