Jia Yang Tee

  • Reprioritising Education for Effective Poverty Reduction in Lao PDR

    Reprioritising Education for Effective Poverty Reduction in Lao PDR

    While Laos has made progress in reducing poverty, a deeper problem remains hidden beneath the numbers. Today, poverty is no longer determined by where people live, but rather by whether children finish school. Education deprivation has become the bottleneck in solving Laos’s poverty issue, yet current developmental policies continue to…

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  • Malaysia’s Silent Trade War: China’s Overproduction, Malaysia’s Overreliance

    Malaysia’s Silent Trade War: China’s Overproduction, Malaysia’s Overreliance

    Malaysia is facing a silent trade war with China, as cheap imports erode the local market and weaken its domestic industrial base. Chinese dumping, which is driven by subsidies and overcapacity, has accelerated Malaysia’s premature deindustrialization. Anti-dumping duties can only provide a temporary buffer. Thus, only by attracting long-term, high-quality…

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