Malaysia Needs Reforms. LOTs of Them.

Professor Terence Gomez, a former Professor of Political Economy at the University of Malaya and Dean of Economics, talks about the impact Malaysia’s politics have had on the livelihoods of ordinary folks and on the nation's economy as well.

(Many thanks to the Asia School of Business for their collaboration with The Do More Podcast, in whose studio this conversation was recorded. The Asia School of Business is a partnership between MIT's Sloan School of Management and Bank Negara Malaysia).

CONTENTS

00:03:00 - Where Malaysia Needs Most Improvement

00:08:15 - How and Why Governments Can Be Bigger and More Meaningful 00:14:28 - How Policy Can Change

00:19:37 - A Lopsided Privilege

00:24:40 - Why Has Malaysia Not Exploited its Vast Potential?

00:28:18 - Are Malaysians Happy? Are Singaporeans Happy?

00:37:57 - Where Does Change Come From?

00:44:32 - Institutional Repair, the Answer

00:52:59 - We Have to Go Back to Coalition Politics

01:00:44 - Execution?

01:02:35 - Why Did Pakatan Harapan 1.0 Fail?

01:05:00 - Why the Big Bang Approach Might Not Work

01:07:00 - Why Prof Gomez Is Not Worried for the Middle Class