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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

Apr 3
Apr 3 The Future of Education in a World of Robots

Nicholas Khaw
automation, jobs & employment, Malaysia, Policy, Education

We can presume that as machine intelligence continues to grow exponentially, especially when it can learn on its own, the threat of machines to human jobs is more and more imminent.

Mar 25
Mar 25 Between Where We Are And Where We Want To Be

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, culture & identity

what does it mean to be a Malaysian today? With that, we can then tackle the TN50 question – what would it mean to be a Malaysian in 2050?

Mar 13
Mar 13 Rethinking Public Scholarships in Malaysia

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Education, Policy

In the circumstance of limited resources, can we not envisage a way in which the JPA scholarship allocation could be stretched further?

Feb 6
Feb 6 We Need a Kinder World

Nicholas Khaw
Politics, Policy, Malaysia, U.S.A., culture & identity

I do not – or at least I try my best not to – choose topics because of strong emotional reactions. This column is different.

Jan 2
Jan 2 Improving Productivity is Meaningless without the “Why”

Nicholas Khaw
Exports & Imports, Economic Growth, Malaysia

what exactly is ‘productivity’ and what does it really mean to boost ‘productivity’?

Dec 12
Dec 12 Exploring the Case for an Unconditional Basic Income

Nicholas Khaw
automation, jobs & employment, Policy, Malaysia

A world without unemployment is not as radical as we might think. A policy is already in the works to enable such a world, breaking the link between jobs and livelihood.

Nov 21
Nov 21 A World Without Unemployment

Nicholas Khaw
jobs & employment, automation

I am a big believer that technology – especially machine learning and artificial intelligence – will make this future a reality. Against this backdrop, how should we move forward?

Oct 10
Oct 10 Empathy and Policymaking

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Policy, Politics

If we fail to understand and empathise with those who do not see things the way we do, especially if they are the majority, we create a society that is not sustainable.

Sep 5
Sep 5 The Complexity of the Gender Wage Gap

Nicholas Khaw
Gender Inequality, Malaysia, jobs & employment

Understanding the greater complexity of the gender wage gap requires delving a lot deeper than simply referring to just one statistic.

Aug 8
Aug 8 Information as Bargaining Power

Nicholas Khaw
Democracy

I would argue that greater transparency of information arms individuals with greater capacity for self-determination, increasing their bargaining chips and reducing leverage mismatches.

Jul 4
Jul 4 Brexit, Trump, and the Political Economy of Fear and Anger

Nicholas Khaw
Politics, U.S.A., Democracy

Blaming the voter base without understanding why they voted the way they did is arrogant and presumptuous.

Jun 6
Jun 6 Earning our Blessed Endowments

Nicholas Khaw
Gender Inequality, culture & identity, Malaysia

While we have undoubtedly made great strides in our national development, what has been the impact of our ‘Malaysian’ culture on national development?

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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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