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CRISIS AND RECOVERY: Learning from COVID-19¡¯s Economic Impacts and Policy Responses in East Asia

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Three years post the initial COVID-19 case, the World Bank reviews the economic impact and government reactions in six East Asian countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Though neighboring, each nation faced unique challenges and took diverse approaches to manage the crisis, with mixed results.

Shaping First Steps: A Comprehensive Review of Preschool Education in Malaysia

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This report on early childhood development produced through a three-step engagement strategy involving various stakeholders, marks the first time in over a decade that stakeholders have come together to discuss common challenges and potential solutions.

Digitalizing SMEs to Boost Competitiveness

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Malaysia's digital economy grew rapidly, further accelerated by COVID-19, granting businesses access to digital platforms. However, SMEs' digitalization needs improvement. The report analyzes opportunities and challenges for SMEs to leverage digital tools, enhancing productivity and competitiveness.

Islamic Finance and the Development of Malaysia¡¯s Halal Economy

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This report explores how Islamic finance can further contribute to the development of Malaysia¡¯s halal economy in supporting the country's aims to enhance Islamic finance support for the halal industry's competitiveness.

Deep-Dive on Malaysia¡¯s Digital Services Trade

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This deep dive seeks to explain how the role of digital services trade can be enhanced to contribute to Malaysia¡¯s competitiveness and integration into the global marketplace.

Deep-Dive on Malaysia¡¯s Higher Education Services Trade

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The paper finds that despite numerous liberalization measures, some remaining restrictions and limitations continue to impact trade in the sector. The report finds that the most significant policy challenges likely relate to domestic constraints. To attract international students and faculty members and to enhance trade in the higher education sector, it is crucial to ease the visa and immigration processes and rules.

Strengthening Services Trade in the Malaysian Economy

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This report explains the main constraints holding back the country's services sector. The key finding is that Malaysia¡¯s development strategy needs to pivot to better capture new trade patterns. This must address some main constraints facing Malaysia¡¯s services sector development.

SME Program Efficiency Review

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This study analyses the composition of Malaysia's SME and entrepreneurship support policies to identify opportunities to decrease redundancies and to increase efficiencies by ensuring that public support towards SME development responds effectively to the most pressing needs of SMEs.

Malaysia: Assessment of the Start-Up Financing Ecosystem

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This study aims to identify the financing gaps in Malaysia's start-up financing ecosystem and propose specific policy levers to address the identified constraints on the availability of and access to early-stage financing.

Multidimensional Poverty in Malaysia: Improving Measurement and Policies in the 2020s

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This paper analyzes the construction and use of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in Malaysia, which the Malaysian government introduced in its national development plan for 2015¨C2020. It examines avenues for improving the relevance of the MPI in policy discourse by setting deprivation thresholds of the various MPI dimensions (health, education, living conditions, income) at levels more appropriate for an upper-middle-income country such as Malaysia.

Malaysia Country Gender Note 2021

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The Malaysia Country Gender Diagnostic Note will serve as a guide to identifying the priority areas for the World Bank country office in Malaysia to address the gender equality challenges in meeting the country¡¯s aspirations and next stage of development, particularly in inclusive growth and sustainability.

Malaysia¡¯s Experience with National Development Planning: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

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This paper describes and evaluates Malaysia¡¯s experience with National Development Planning (NDP). It discusses Malaysia¡¯s approach to national planning and how it has\ driven economic transformation and helped strengthen social cohesion.

Aiming High: Navigating the Next Stage of Malaysia¡¯s Development

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In just one generation, Malaysia has seen great success growing from a low- to upper-middle-income economy. Malaysia¡¯s economy today is significantly different from its transitional and aspirational peers. To compete with other high-income countries, factor accumulation is no longer sufficient to maintain growth.

A Silver Lining - Productive and Inclusive Aging for Malaysia

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The report analyzes Malaysia¡¯s demographic, socioeconomic, and macroeconomic contexts and identifies key policy areas where critical knowledge gaps exist¨Cemployment, income security, and aged care.

Assessing the Effectiveness of Public Research Institutions: Fostering Knowledge Linkages and Transferring Technology in Malaysia

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A sustained increase in private investment and productivity improvements will be necessary to maintain a sustainable economic growth trajectory that enables Malaysia to reach high-income status.

Management Practices in Malaysia: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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This report aims to use data from the World Management Survey (WMS) to benchmark the quality of management practices in Malaysia against comparator countries and investigate the drivers of management practices.

Aspirations Unfulfilled: Malaysia's Cost of Living Challenges

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A study on the impact of the cost of living among Malaysians from various demographics

Who is Keeping Score? Estimating the Number of Foreign Workers in Malaysia

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With foreign labor as a critical contributor to growth, a better understanding of their numbers can facilitate a more rigorous analysis of their impact on the economy and formulation of evidence-based policies to manage foreign workers and harness the benefits of foreign labor.

Public-Private Dialogue in Business Regulation Reform: A Case Study on PEMUDAH

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This study explores the fundamental tenets of successful public-private dialogues and their importance in the overall development of an economy.

Agricultural Transformation and Inclusive Growth: The Malaysian Experience

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The Malaysian story involves a farsighted leadership that has mobilized the considerable assets of a resource-rich country to translate a long-term vision of nation-building into action and transformational results.

Regulatory Governance for Development and Growth: Malaysia's Experience with Good Regulatory Practices

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Good Regulatory Practices (GRP) are a systematic application of tools, institutions, and procedures that governments can mobilize to ensure that regulatory outcomes are practical, transparent, inclusive, and sustained.

Breaking Barriers: Toward Better Economic Opportunities for Women in Malaysia

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Promoting economic opportunities for women is one of the most promising avenues for Malaysia¡¯s future development. 

Monitoring Occupational Shortages-Lessons from Malaysia¡¯s Critical Occupations List

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Malaysia¡¯s ¡®Critical Occupations List¡¯ is an innovative tool for preparing workers for the jobs of the future.

Budgeting for Performance in Malaysia

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In Malaysia, the government has undertaken a more outcome-based approach to the annual budget process, representing an evolutionary step towards performance-based budgeting.

Improving Education Sector Performance in Malaysia: Lessons from a Delivery Unit Approach

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Malaysia¡¯s efforts to tackle education challenges, mainly through establishing a ¡®delivery unit¡¯ that tracks results, can help other countries seeking to improve implementation in the sector.

Enhancing Public Sector Performance: Malaysia¡¯s Experience With Transforming Land Administration

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According to a new World Bank report, Malaysia¡¯s success in reforming land policies and land administration can help other developing countries strive to manage their resources better.

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Open Data Readiness Assessment: Malaysia

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According to a new World Bank report, Malaysia is ready to formulate an action plan to enable broad public access to government data and strengthen data use in development planning.

Driving Performance from the Center: Malaysia¡¯s Experience with PEMANDU

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According to a new World Bank report, Malaysia¡¯s experience driving public sector performance through a delivery unit is a helpful case study for governments worldwide.