Good times, good policies

IN my travels, I have met some of the world’s top economists, investment analysts, influential academicians, and movers and shakers in the business community. For example, last week, I spent a day with back-to-back meetings at the World Bank headquarters in Washington to share Malaysia’s transformation story.

I shared the stage as a panellist with Professor Christian Ketels of Harvard University, and Professor Charles Sabel of Columbia University, who wrote a case study commissioned by the World Bank on Malaysia’s transformation programme. I stopped for a day to make similar presentations at Harvard University in Boston and also to the Fitch Rating agency in New York.