Trapped multiple times
By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
June 2014 EDITORIAL
This month’s cover is about Malaysia’s brain drain; and what is fascinating is how old – and yet how current – the story reads.Indeed, we should be talking about a Brain Drain Trap, as we do about the Middle Income Trap. And we should be worrying just as much – Malaysia's GDP per capita has stayed at about 30% of the US’s since 1994. No improvement in 20 years.“Trap” is not necessarily a good analogy here because it suggests an...
Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.
