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Malaysia Faces A Challenge in Reinforcing the Wage-Productivity Link

Achim Schmillen, Senior Economist, World Bank’s Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice

29-Mar-19 08:45

Malaysia Faces A Challenge in Reinforcing the Wage-Productivity Link

For goods and services worth US$1000, Malaysians get paid US$340 compared to $510 in similar economies. How Bank Negara’s wish list on how to fix this translates to policy is a different matter altogether.

Presented by: Lyn Mak, Sharidz Abdullah and Julian Ng


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Tags:  labour,  reforms,  wage stagnation,  BNM Report 2018, 


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