Opinions
Opinions
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Domestic PolicyThe Progressive Wage Scheme and the Madani Economy Framework
The PWS seeks to balance fairly the competing interests of employers and workers under the oversight of the State.
By Jason Loh -
Foreign Policy
The Known Known of the Faux Pas of the US Veto On Gaza
… has the UN truly lost the proverbial marbles in protecting its own charter ? Is the UN even relevant anymore ? Or has the UN descended into becoming a mere talk shop …
By Rais Hussin -
Domestic Policy
Malaysia needs a new toolbox to combat poverty
To foster transformative strategies for nation-building, poverty requires analysis using different approaches instead of conventional monitoring of aggregate figures.
By Chan Myae San -
Domestic Policy
“Internal empowerment, external control” for foreign beggars
The act of begging, in its occurrence, persistence, and regularity, reflects public and social policy shortcomings.
By Farah Natasya Muhamad Ridzuan -
Domestic Policy
Malaysia Madani and the social contract
Malaysia Madani is well-poised to definitively give adequate expression to the dual nature inherent in our society as underpinned by the “social contract”.
By Jason Loh -
Foreign Policy
Humanitarian Insanity At Work In Gaza
…. the very process of seeing Israel now pounding on Gaza with bombs verging on 60,000 KG worth of dynamites, is but an invitation to be complicit in all forms of war crimes and chicanery...
By Rais Hussin -
Domestic Policy
Budget 2024 – new financing models
Fiscal consolidation and sustainability necessitates indirect/secondary fiscal injection not only via PPP but also fiscal decentralisation.
By Jason Loh -
Economy and Finance
Addressing gender disparities amid career breaks
Achieving a 60% female labour force participation rate within a decade is our path to gender equality and economic growth.
By Farah Natasya Muhamad Ridzuan -
Opinions
The line between truth and fake is blurring like no other
The rise of cybertroopers poses a significant threat to the electoral process, integrity, transparency, and the parliamentary system's stability in Malaysia.
By Margarita Peredaryenko and Jachintha Joyce Devasagayam Jayakumar -
Domestic Policy
Credible Malaysian Brain Drain Intervention is Long Overdue!
… an intervention based on data-driven outputs (specific money spin-offs linked empirically to the desired outcomes and intergenerational impacts) able to tackle the very root causes of human flight effectively.
By Rais Hussin
