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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

Mar 5
Mar 5 Correlation, Causality and the Lack Thereof

Nicholas Khaw
Education, Statistics

We are hardwired to attribute causality to patterns that we observe, and going against that wiring will be difficult. But we have to start somewhere.

Feb 5
Feb 5 Trump, Davos and Moral Foundations

Nicholas Khaw
Politics, U.S.A., Taxes, Reflections

When it was announced that President Trump would be speaking at Davos, I found myself being unable to gauge what sort of reception the Davos crowd would give to President Trump.

Dec 5
Dec 5 Thanksgiving, Black Friday and a High-Income Nation

Nicholas Khaw
Capitalism, U.S.A., Wealth Inequality

Thanksgiving is essentially camaraderie, goodwill, gratitude and a sumptuous dinner, all packed in one. The very next day, all of this just basically gets blown to smithereens.

Nov 8
Nov 8 Persuasion in a Rashomon World

Nicholas Khaw
Economics, Rethoric

For any given individual, the narratives we tell ourselves about how the world works or how events play out becomes our ‘truth’ and can very easily take precedence over facts.

Oct 12
Oct 12 Ten “Indie” Development Indicators

Nicholas Khaw
Economic Growth, Malaysia, Education, Gender Inequality

why not come up with a set of indicators specific to Malaysia’s context that we do not measure at the moment, but we certainly could.

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?

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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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