Malaysia’s spending on Healthcare as a percentage of GDP is ranked number 156 out of 187 countries in the world ! MALAYSIA’s number of Doctors for each 1 million population is at 700 persons. Do we need more doctors? A study by Starfield concludes that an increase of one primary care physician per 10,000 population resulted in a reduction of …

The education budget education was slashed from RM50 billion to RM37 billion this year! To get an idea of how counter-intuitive this is for a developing Malaysia, even Vietnam, Timor Leste and Cuba spent more. Currently, about 80 per cent of the bottom 40 per cent income households are only SPM qualified and below, with almost only 5 per cent …

The estimates made from the HIS indicates that 75.9% Malaysians cannot afford houses above RM250,000. This is the case according to the property market report where 78-85% properties transacted is below RM250,000. How do we ensure the price of properties is stabilized and more affordable houses is offered to the public? RESIDENTIAL TRANSACTION by PRICE (2006-2010) 85% of residential sale …

Malaysia’s household debt to disposable income at 140% is among the highest in the word! The biggest portion are for housing loans followed by passenger car loans, personal use, securities purchase, and credit cards. What can we do to reduce our household debts? – Increase pay? – Reduce house price (speculations?) – Reduce car taxation? – Price of goods? – …

TFTN on New Sarawak Tribune, 07 Nov 2012: Frontpage The World Education Forum held in Dakar in 2000 subscribed to a goal that by 2015 “all children particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to complete free and compulsory education of good quality.”  While access to basic primary education is less of a …

Malaysia’s Federal Government Finance (1985-2012) and OPEX Component (1990-2012) Malaysian government budget is your money. Know your spending! More than RM135 Billion increase in Operating Expenditure (OPEX) from year 2000-2012. What happened? Observations; a) Increased in government revenue is unfortunately closely followed by OPEX b) Very Significant and consistent growth of deficit 1998-2012 c) Significant % increase in subsidies payout …

The Gini coefficient measures the inequality among values of a frequency distribution (for example levels of income). A Gini coefficient of zero expresses perfect equality where all values are the same (for example, where everyone has an exactly equal income). A Gini coefficient of one (100 on the percentile scale) expresses maximal inequality among values (for example where only one …

On March 1, a group of young volunteers established Teach for the Needs (TFTN), an online community to provide an opportunity for the less fortunate pupils to experience better education, at least partially similar to that of their more fortunate peers from privileged households. Currently 3.8% of the 3 million students in schools fall below the poverty line and the …

  Graph indicates the progress in numbers of Bumiputera professionals in respective fields from 1970 to 2008. Generally it reflects the racial composition of Malaysia except for CEOs, Accountants and Lawyers.

Questions for Mr Anas Alam Faizli  1.     State which department you work in (Talisman) and job title Projects department, Project Coordinator 2.     What’s your involvement in Teach For The Needs (TFTN)? I am one of the five of the organization’s board of trustees and I’m in charge of policy and research. As non-teacher volunteer, I pioneered the formal incorporation and …

1 Mac yang lalu, sekumpulan sukarelawan muda telah menubuhkan Teach For The Needs (TFTN), sebuah komuniti dalam talian yang namanya telah jelas menerangkan visi di sebalik penubuhannya. Forum Dunia Pendidikan yang diadakan di Dakar pada tahun 2000 lalu berpegang yakin kepada matlamat bahawa menjelang 2015, “Semua kanak-kanak, terutamanya kanak-kanak perempuan dan kanak-kanak yang memerlukan yang terdiri daripada kalangan etnik minoriti, …

By Zul Fikri Zamir Mohamad Munir and Anas Alam Faizli 31st August 2012 marked the 55th celebration of Malaysia’s independence. Significant changes in education policies had taken place since then. During the pre independence period, we had distinct education systems with pondoks, madrasahs and race-based vernacular schools dominating the education landscape. Then there was the Barnes Report which proposed a …

Oleh Zul Fikri Zamir Mohamad Munir & Anas Alam Faizli  31 OGOS 2012 genap 55 tahun Malaysia merdeka. Bukan sedikit perubahan dasar dan polisi pendidikan telah dilaksanakan. Sebelum merdeka kita bermula dengan sistem pendidikan yang berasingan dengan sekolah-sekolah pondok, madrasah dan vernakular mengikut bangsa.  Laporan Barnes kemudiannya cuba mencadangkan satu sistem pendidikan yang lebih menyeluruh di mana semuanya digabungkan di …

Daniel Johnston dalam bukunya International Petroleum Fiscal Systems and Production Sharing Contracts mendakwa Malaysia sebagai salah sebuah negara yang  mempunyai sistem fiskal yang paling ketat di Asia Tenggara. Hal ini merupakan hasil kaji selidik menyeluruhnya ke atas 148 buah negara-negara pengusaha minyak dan gas di dunia, dan sistem percukaian petroleum masing-masing. Apakah yang dimaksudkan dengan “sistem fiskal yang ketat?” Secara …