Last year’s extreme drought and contractions in the mining sector have combined to strip Vietnam of its stellar economic growth for 2016, while what effect the death two weeks ago of King Bhumibol Adulyadej will […]
Over the past several decades a strong economy has seen Malaysia rise to become one of Asia’s newly industrialised countries. In one generation it transitioned successfully from low- to upper-middle-income status, due in large part […]
Malaysia has been able to reach remarkable achievements over the past several decades, including the eradication of extreme poverty and promotion of inclusive growth. It aims to reach high-income nation status by 2020, something which […]
The World Bank has forecast modest economic growth in 2016 with global gross domestic product (GDP) forecast to increase by 20.83 per cent from 2.4 per cent in 2015 to 2.9 per cent this year. […]
As it tussles with multiple crises of political legitimacy and governance Malaysia has reached a decisive point in its more than half-century history as an independent nation. What started as a shocking but not exceptional […]