Moving from enforced regulations to personal responsibility means we not only need to ensure the practical aspects of ensuring everyone has equal access to “personal responsibility” at best, we need to build or even rebuild trust.
Power distance and our “VIP culture”, which may have worked in different instances in the past or indeed in the present for a given objective, is unlikely to be conducive to future economic development objectives
Technology need not be predestined, and technology policy is something policymakers can influence. Governments can and should shape the kinds of digital technology they believe their countries can adopt and deploy.
How many “Chosen Ones” have we missed simply because we do not provide them with the opportunities to maximise their potential?
When it comes to competition, if Malaysia’s largest firms primarily compete among themselves for an “island-type” market size, how productive can they actually be?
Questioning the wisdom and the authority of the past is how progress progresses. We will not achieve a true merdeka of self-determination for our country if we, at the societal level, do not ourselves possess a merdeka of our spirits.
Our National Recovery Plan must chart a path towards a more sustainable and inclusive prosperity. We must be ambitious, bold and imaginative. But most of all, we have to be patient.
Economic development will have occasional failures as by-products of its progress. The optimal “experimental failure” level in a country is non-zero.
Trust grants a sense of security in society that those being governed will be taken care of by those who govern. It builds a foundation for society to build on…
Without attempting something bold, our every social, political or economic possibility will always be “20 years away” or some faraway vision for us to achieve.
It is only with the passage of time that we will be able to see some of the unintended consequences of the global efforts on vaccines and vaccination. In this essay, I want to discuss four ripples.