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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 5
Sep 5 The Complexity of the Gender Wage Gap

Nicholas Khaw
Gender Inequality, Malaysia, jobs & employment

Understanding the greater complexity of the gender wage gap requires delving a lot deeper than simply referring to just one statistic.

Aug 8
Aug 8 Information as Bargaining Power

Nicholas Khaw
Democracy

I would argue that greater transparency of information arms individuals with greater capacity for self-determination, increasing their bargaining chips and reducing leverage mismatches.

Jul 4
Jul 4 Brexit, Trump, and the Political Economy of Fear and Anger

Nicholas Khaw
Politics, U.S.A., Democracy

Blaming the voter base without understanding why they voted the way they did is arrogant and presumptuous.

Jun 6
Jun 6 Earning our Blessed Endowments

Nicholas Khaw
Gender Inequality, culture & identity, Malaysia

While we have undoubtedly made great strides in our national development, what has been the impact of our ‘Malaysian’ culture on national development?

May 2
May 2 An Economic Perspective on Love

Nicholas Khaw
Reflections, Economics

Can Economics show how, the most irrational and illogical – by conventional wisdom, anyway – emotion that humans have can be rational and utility maximising?

Apr 4
Apr 4 More Entrepreneurs, More Artists, Fewer Politicians

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Economic Growth

while figuring out the impact of a particular individual may be tricky, we may also ask, what type of individuals are more likely to have a stronger impact on their society?

Mar 7
Mar 7 Exports for Imports

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Malaysia, Exports & Imports, Economic Growth, Politics

This is my third argument on why a depreciating Ringgit is sub-optimal for the Malaysian economy.

Feb 8
Feb 8 Re-thinking Property Rights for Sustainable Development

Nicholas Khaw
Wealth Inequality, Capitalism, Economics

Inequality is typically a symptom of something else at work. Rather than lambast inequality for inequality’s sake, we should take great care in finding out how that inequality came to be.

Jan 4
Jan 4 2016: Our Collective Obligation

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Economic Growth

Far be it for me to predict what will happen in 2016 in terms of GDP growth, the Ringgit, exports growth and so on - it would perhaps be better for me to opine on how we can continue to play our part to grow our ‘commons’ amidst very challenging times.

Dec 7
Dec 7 Distributional Outcomes of a Falling Ringgit

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Exports & Imports

what is of paramount importance to understand is that what is good at the aggregate is not necessarily good when disaggregated.

Nov 9
Nov 9 The Myth of the ‘Sharing Economy’

Nicholas Khaw
Sharing Economy, Capitalism

The ‘Sharing Economy’ is not something new, nor is it correctly labelled. Rather, the ‘Sharing Economy’ is actually just the creation of new markets for goods and services that hitherto did not have markets.

Oct 5
Oct 5 Elasticity, Complexity and The Wire

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Exports & Imports, Economics

Over the weekend, I finished watching The Wire, a HBO drama series concluded in 2008, that revolved around the city of Baltimore, Maryland

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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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