The Tiger That Lost Its Roar – A Tale of Malaysia’s Political Economy
By Toh Kin Woon
December 2011 BOOK REVIEW
THIS BOOK BY Tony Pua, an Oxford-trained economist who currently is a Member of Parliament from the Democratic Action Party (DAP), is a collection of articles that were earlier carried largely in his blog. These focus primarily on the Barisan Nasional (BN) government’s mismanagement of the Malaysian economy and the country’s public finances.Pua cites various examples including privatization, the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ), the misallocation of subsidies, the misuse of petrodollars, the gap between policy intent and outcomes as...
Toh Kin Woon
is a senior research fellow at the Penang Institute.
