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Brief IDEAS № 5: Governing State-Owned Enterprises: Lessons learned from 1MDB

Brief IDEAS Publications By admin|October 24, 2016 |0

Download the policy paper here. On 7 April 2016, sixteen months after commencing investigations, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published a report on 1Malaysia Development Berhad1 (1MDB). The report reviewed the management and administration [...]

Brief IDEAS № 4: The Potential of Independent Religious Schools

Brief IDEAS Education Publications By admin|June 8, 2016 |0

Download the policy paper here. Private religious schools have gained popularity in Malaysia over the past few years, but are they a viable alternative to the mainstream school system? Author Atlaf Deviyati analyses whether Islamic private [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]