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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

Sep 4
Sep 4 "We Weren't Supposed to Be Here"

Nicholas Khaw
Economic Growth, Malaysia, Reflections

We’re not supposed to be as successful as we are and to still have as much potential as we do today. Yet after 60 years of independence, Malaysia has been among the most successful countries in the world in terms of economic growth.

Jul 3
Jul 3 Taxes as a Two-Way Deal

Nicholas Khaw
Economics, Taxes, Wealth Inequality

I would go all-in on the bet that taxes, whether defined in quantum or in type, are just going to increase as we move into the future.

Jun 17
Jun 17 Religion and Economic Outcomes

Nicholas Khaw
Capitalism, culture & identity, Economic Growth, Malaysia, Religion

“Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?” To be a bit more specific, given that we are now in the holy month of Ramadan, I would like to narrow this discussion down to the role of religion in economic growth.

May 8
May 8 Why Focusing on Cost of Living is Misguided

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Policy, Wealth Inequality, Capitalism

Highly paid foreign workers (interchangeable with expatriates) do not consume the same things that the median Malaysian consumes.

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.

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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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