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Brief IDEAS № 3: Are FTAs bad for Health?

Brief IDEAS Publications By admin|May 6, 2016 |0

Click to download Sreekanth Venkatamaran is an Associate Professor at Mahindra Ecole Centrale in India. Phillip Stevens is a SEANET (Southeast Asia Network for Development) Fellow and Director of Geneva Network. SEANET is a project of IDEAS. Thi [...]

Policy IDEAS No 27: How Can Malaysia’s Budget Documents Be Improved?

Governance Policy Ideas Publications By admin|April 8, 2016 |0

Click to download Based on the Open Budget Index, the International Budget Partnership lists three recommendations to improve the quality of the budget documents. They are: 1. Producing the currently unavailable budget documents (i.e. Citizen’s B [...]

Brief IDEAS № 2: Lesser Government in Business: An Unfulfilled Promise?

Brief IDEAS Publications By admin|April 7, 2016 |0

Click to download Wan Saiful Wan Jan is author of this policy paper. He is the Founder and Chief Executive of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS). He is also Director of the Southeast Asia Network for Development (SEANET) and [...]

Policy IDEAS No 26: Capitalism in Asia

Economy & Trade Policy Ideas Publications By admin|March 29, 2016 |0

Click here to download This paper is written by Dr Razeen Sally who is also the IDEAS’ Chair in Political Economy and Governance and Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. This pap [...]

Policy IDEAS No 25: Economic Liberalism in Asia

Economy & Trade Policy Ideas Publications By admin|March 28, 2016 |0

Click to download Dr Razeen Sally is the author of this paper and he is also the Chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies, a key think tank in his native Sri Lanka which advises the Sri Lankan government on economic policies. This paper is an e [...]

Policy IDEAS No 24: School Autonomy Case Studies of Private School Chains in Malaysia

Education Policy Ideas Publications By admin|March 25, 2016 |0

Click here to download The author of this policy paper is Nina Adian Disney. She is a Malaysian with a transnational educational background (the US, Australia, Switzerland, Korea and the UK). She studied Law at the London School of Economics and i [...]

Policy IDEAS No 23: A Case Study of a Chinese Independent School

Policy Ideas Publications By admin|March 24, 2016 |0

Click to download This paper present the findings and observations of a case study conducted in a particular Chinese Independent School located in Klang Valley. It elaborates on the efficacy of the school in conducting teacher training to ensure t [...]

Special Report – The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Catalysing Reforms in Governance

Other Publications policyideas Publications Special Edition By admin|January 22, 2016 |0

This paper calls for the Parliament of Malaysia and the public to support a motion for the government to sign the TransPacific Partnership Agreement (hereafter referred to as TPPA or the agreement). The TPPA will not only bring economic benefits [...]

Policy IDEAS No 22: Autism – Life after early intervention

Policy Ideas Publications By admin|November 4, 2015 |0

This paper looks at the educational, care and therapy options for children with autism who are between the ages of nine (upper-limit to when they are able to enter mainstream primary schools) and above. Through interviews with parents, teachers a [...]

Policy IDEAS No. 21: Living with Autism

Policy Ideas Publications By admin|July 28, 2015 |0

Once regarded as a rare occurrence, the incidence of autism is now on the rise in Malaysia. This case study explores the level of support available to parents of children with autism through interviews with stakeholders in the field. Four key area [...]

Policy IDEAS No 20: Malaysia’s Public-Private Partnerships in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Alternatives to complete carve-out

Policy Ideas Publications By admin|June 29, 2015 |0

In the ongoing negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), it is intended to incorporate public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the chapter on government procurement, thereby opening up mutual access to the PPP markets of the me [...]

Brief IDEAS № 1 – How can Malaysia’s Asset Declaration System be improved to help combat corruption?

Brief IDEAS Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)Publications By admin|May 27, 2015 |0

“Despite the steps taken by Tun Abdullah Badawi when he was Prime Minister, and the recent suggestions by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, the matter of asset declaration continues to be an issue. While Malaysia has an existing asset declaration s [...]