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Friday, 9 February 2018

Monetization of politics reaches its height.......Chapter 5: Academic as Politician, Episode 4: This Political Life

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Read more HERE This monetization of politics reaches its height during the party election season, which comes on every three years.    Th...
Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Chapter 5: The Academic as Politician, Episode 2: Chicken in a Pineapple Patch is OUT NOW!

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Chapter 5: The Academic as Politician, Episode 2: Chicken in a Pineapple Patch is OUT NOW! Read Here
Friday, 29 April 2016

Chapter 5: The Academic as Politician, Episode 1: Curtain Call is Now Out!

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Read it HERE This was the year of the “Bahtera Wawasan” campaign.  Emerging from the 1987 TeamA-TeamB split, and the subsequent outlaw...
Monday, 23 November 2015

People or Profit, a Hazy Outlook for Newly Launched Asean Economic Community

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BY SHERIDAN MAHAVERA The Malaysian Insider Published: 23 November 2015 7:00 AM The Asean Economic Community (AEC) launched with much fan...
Monday, 9 November 2015

Reuters: Banks' Dollar Borrowing adds Layer of Risk to Malaysia's Creeping Crisis

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Sectors Reuters  By Vidya Ranganathan Published: Sun Nov 8, 2015 9:00pm GMT * Ringgit down around 20 percent against dollar this year...
Saturday, 7 November 2015

Apocalypse Now: has the Next Giant Financial Crash Already Begun?

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Paul Mason The Guardian Published: Sunday 1 November 2015 20.00 GMT The 1st of October came and went without financial armageddon. ...

Our Worst Fears Confirmed – Mohd Nizam Mahshar

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Kamal Salih Comments:  Nizam has consistently taken the position as point-man for those opposed to the TPPA recently negotiated by the 12...
Saturday, 17 October 2015

Malaysia’s Spectacular Drop in Inequality, is it for Real?

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Kamal Salih's Comments - My colleague Dr. Lee Hwok Aun (HA) from the Department of Development Studies at FEA, University of Malaya, wr...
Sunday, 11 October 2015

Kamal Salih on Ringgit Sense TV3

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Saturday, 10 October 2015

Risk of Global Financial Crash has Increased, Warns IMF

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Phillip Inman The Guardian, Global Economy Published 7 October 2015, 15.08 BST The risk of a global financial crash has increased b...

Malaysia at Risk in Event of Global Financial Crash, Says Report

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Malaysian Insider Published 10 October 2015 10:49 AM Malaysia is one of several emerging economies at risk in the event of a global f...
Sunday, 27 September 2015

Can Malaysia Deliver Inclusive Growth?

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By Gemma Corrigan Sep 8 2015 World Economic Forum In Asia, as elsewhere in the world, there is a growing consensus that economic gr...
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Kamal Salih
Tan Sri Datuk Dr. Kamal Salih, born in 1946, graduated with B.A. (Hons) (Monash) and PhD (Uni. Pennsylvania) in 1973. Served Universiti Sains Malaysia between 1973-85 as Professor, Dean and Deputy VC (Academic). He was the founding Executive Director of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER) 1986-1994. As a policy advisor Tan Sri Kamal was a member of the Prime Minster’s Economic Panel in 1981-86, the Malaysian Business Council 1991-1996, and acted as the Rapporteur-General of the first National Economic Consultative Council, MAPEN1 1989- 1991. In 1992 he established the first private medical college in Malaysia, the International Medical University (IMU) and remained its Executive Chairman until 2004. On retiring from IMU, Tan Sri Kamal served as economic advisor on the National Implementation Task Force (NITF) in the Abdullah Badawi Admin 2006-08. He was elected Member of Parliament for Wangsa Maju from 1996 to 1999. In 1996 he established Yayasan Wangsa Maju now known as Yayasan Mahkota, and remains its Chairman until now. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Economics and Development Studies in Universiti Malaya.
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