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About Nick: i am an economist based in malaysia. I write about ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICAL ECONOMY, while sneaking in a pop culture reference or two.

Nicholas Khaw

Oct 27
Oct 27 The Importance of Mathematics

Nicholas Khaw
Education, Malaysia

I sincerely believe that a sound mathematical education is one of the keys to a mature (Malaysian or anywhere really) civil society.

Oct 13
Oct 13 Shocking Our Way Out of the Middle-Income Trap

Nicholas Khaw
Economic Growth, Economics, Malaysia, Policy

What if, regardless of whatever a given country, call it country M, is doing right now, country M cannot escape the middle income trap because it is at its middle-income equilibrium?

Aug 18
Aug 18 Fighting Crime with Economics

Nicholas Khaw
Economics, Malaysia, Policy, Wealth Inequality

I am somewhat puzzled and concerned over the absence of any mention of improving economic realities in the fight against crime.

May 13
May 13 On Moving Forward

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Democracy, Politics, Policy, Wealth Inequality, culture & identity

The 13th General Elections is a wathershed of sorts as elections tend to be, and we would like to share some common views of how we move forward from here.

Sep 11
Sep 11 The Changing Commons

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Economics

there is a lack of faith in official statistics. A question to ask is therefore what is really at stake from society's perspective when official statistics are believed to be fallacious?

Jun 28
Jun 28 To shape a Shaper: Reflections on the World Economic Forum on East Asia

Nicholas Khaw
Reflections

May 31
May 31 Capitalism: A means, not an end

Nicholas Khaw
Economics, Capitalism

after the subprime crisis in the United States and the ongoing Eurozone crisis, questions have been raised on the efficacy and value of capitalism as the world’s economic system.

Dec 11
Dec 11 Technological Supercycles and Discontinuous Jumps

Nicholas Khaw
Economics, Malaysia, Economic Growth

Malaysia’s transformation must go beyond projects and policies – it must embrace the technological super-cycles that shape global economic history.

 

Hi, I'm Nick. My research interests and intellectual passions are in the the political economy of economic development particularly related to the long term persistence of historical events and cultural/institutional co-evolutionary factors on economic and public policy outcomes today.

I serve as an economist in Khazanah Nasional, Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, where I am Head of Research and Co-Head of Private Markets, Investments. My work covers Investments research, private markets investing (direct and indirect), Dana Impak, Khazanah’s knowledge management and Khazanah’s public policy engagement. I am also a Trustee of the Khazanah Research Institute.

I also write a monthly column for The Edge Malaysia.

 

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