It would have a positive impact on the recipient's health education and well-being. It combats poverty and builds human capital in the long run and prevents the transmission of poverty from one generation to the other.
The evidence suggests that there was sharp intra-racial disparity among the Malay race compared to the other races suggesting that that the elites were enriching themselves at the detriment of the poor Malays.
Mahathir, a powerful advocate of emulating best work practices of Japan and South Korea again reiterates his stand on Malaysian companies looking east and taking a leaf from them in the onward corporate journey.
The dreaded legacy of the TPPA is still infused in CPTPP and among the contentious chapters on intellectual rights and the investor-state dispute settlement provision.
The MP says the government should also put efforts in reducing the operating expenditure with fewer wastage and losses, by deploying better and more transparent procurement policies.
Analysts also chime in to say that that the Evergrande debt crisis, China’s power crisis, and local political developments such as the progress of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the government and Pakatan Harapan (PH)
Raw Chicken which is deemed an essential good is zero-rated but marinated chicken is 6%. We could also perhaps get marinated chicken to be tax-exempt...
“A lot of wastages can be avoided and increased efficiency and prudence would help cap government expenditures to meet the current shortfall, “he says.
Two of the most contentious issues or chapters in CTPP are the chapters on intellectual rights and the dreaded legacy from the TPPA that is the investor-state dispute settlement provision.
With a sense of impending doom on the horizon, just declaring that substantial incentives are being given out will not help to improve people's perceptions, which is crucial in boosting economic sentiment.
The responsibility of stirring the economy in the right direction rests with all of us and if gloom and doom are what we see, then we have only ourselves to blame
Yeah says there is a greater need for increased cash transfers to the distressed group notably the B40, those who have lost their jobs, and daily wage earners which will immediately encourage consumer spending
The company aims to be one of the top 5 glove producers in Malaysia in the future and it will be exploring the listing of its manufacturing/healthcare divisions separately
In the medium-term, TS Raymond says the PM could also look at the NEW Economic policy that seeks to deploy it on a need-based policy. Such a policy should see the equal distribution of aid and assistance to needy groups irrespective of their ethnicity.
Nageeb says that there was already a shortage of 36,000 last year to 70,000 workers this year adding that the shortage of workers was felt by big plantation workers
