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The State of Investment

The business community needs to look at the fact that with increased risk, investors will simply look to have increased rewards, and to focus on those opportunities that deliver these results for investors, this will yield the best results for investment promotion. The question is can productivity reach above and beyond the levels of risk presented by the current situation? The model foreign investor brings jobs, increase exports and much needed tax revenues, contributes to society, and transfers technology and expertise. Before all of this happens, those companies with global supply chains and international market share are able to spend considerable resources on due diligence and market intelligence. This process enables investment committees to see through the first layer of information available in the media. The question is: what are they finding beyond the media hype? Do current investment opportunities pass the cost benefit analysis required to press the [...]

Strategic Production Zones – Rapid Response to COVID19

The recent announcement that a committee jointly chaired by senior ministers in charge of security and economy clusters respectively demonstrates that the Malaysian government is serious about creating a balance between continued safety of the general population and the survival of the economy. In the global context, as many countries struggle to deal with the medical response to COVID19 this step represents a broader and indeed a rapid response to the COVID19 crisis. The clearly stated objective of this new committee is to balance the medical risks and rewards of increased production during the current situation. This rapid response is testimony to Malaysia’s currently rank of 12th in World Bank Doing Business 2020 report. From the perspective of crisis management all scenarios need to be taken into consideration. This includes the scenario that a prolonged crisis becomes the new reality that people and companies must be able to function [...]