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Trade Can Help End Poverty
For UNDP Resident Representative Dr. Richard Leete, Malaysia sets an example for other developing countries. According to a UNDP case study conducted in cooperation with ISIS and MIER, the country has combined strategic and carefully sequenced trade liberalisation with investment in the education and livelihood of its people.
Freeing the Poor from Paternalistic Protectionism
Tensions rose during a dinner talk organised by Balairakyat and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation on how to enhance the livelihood of the poor. According to Barun Mitra, Director of the Liberty Institute in New Delhi/India, unilateral trade concessions are the best remedy for ailing sectors of the economy.
China Reaps Benefits of Free Trade
In a forum organised by the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA-Beliawanis) and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, the renowned Chinese economist Prof. Mao Yushi explained how China has benefited from its unilateral trade concessions to the WTO.
Challenges of Governing the Chinese Economy
A forum co-organized by Gerakan Wanita Chief YB Tan Lian Hoe and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation discussed political reasons behind the incomplete transition to a market economy in China.
Economic Freedom Report 2006 launched in KL
Malaysia’s level of economic freedom has slipped in comparison to its international competitors. In the new report, Malaysia was ranked 53rd in 2004, down from 17th placing before 1997.
US-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement
Can Malaysia afford to stay out of bilateral free trade agreements? This was a crucial question discussed during a conference organized by FNF and MIER in September.
Malaysia on track for an Anti-Monopoly Law
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation invited Dato’ S. Veerasingham, Deputy Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Affairs, and a delegation of high ranking Southeast Asian officials to attend two major international events on antitrust law and enforcement in Bonn/Germany.
The Near-Term Outlook: The Malaysian Economy and The Currency Peg
The Liberal Forum Malaysia sponsored by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation recently organized a half-day hot seat forum in partnership with the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research on: The Near-Term Outlook: the Malaysian Economy and the Currency Peg at the Grand Plaza Parkroyal Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday 24th February 2005
Whither the Market Economy?
In a recent commentary, FNF Malaysia Project Director Mr. Rainer Heufers, gave an impression on the idea of Liberalism in modern day society and how the principles of such a philosophy are applicable to the many changes that developing countries are facing.
The Empire Strikes Back
Has globalization allowed the US to pursue a policy of ‘Empire’? Many critics have suggested that the current international trading system is biased towards powerful economies with a unilateral agenda. See what you think
FNF Hosts Free Market Seminar in Berlin
In Berlin November 2003, the FNF co-hosted a meeting of the 'Campaign for Free Trade'. In attendance to express her views was Indrani Thuraisingham, Secretary General of ERA Consumer Malaysia, who spoke on 'Women and Globalization in the developing world'.
MIER and FNF host Poverty Alleviation Conference
In October 2002 the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research and the FNF jointly organized a conference on 'Poverty Alleviation and Social Stability' in Kuala Lumpur. This event was attended by a number of government ministries as well as organizations such as the Consumers Association of Penang an the Economic Planning Unit. Among the many ideas discussed, were the notions of poverty era dication, globalization and poverty, and models of rural development. Recommendation from this meeting have been complied and put forth to the Ministry of National Unity and Social Development. |
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