Archive for October 2nd, 2021
How to make the 12th Malaysia Plan a truly game-changer
Posted by Kit in Ismail Sabri, nation building on Saturday, 2 October 2021
In the last 50 years since 1970, when Malaysia’s Second Malaysia Plan and the New Economic Policy were launched, Malaysia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has increased 90 times from US$3,737bil in 1970 to US$338,286bil in 2020.
But Malaysia’s GDP has been overtaken by Singapore and Vietnam and continued to be behind Hong Kong.
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Painful to track Malaysia’s poor performance in ASEAN in Covid-19 pandemic particularly in losing out to Indonesia in both daily Covid-19 caseload and daily Covid-19 deaths in the past month
It is painful to track Malaysia’s poor performance in ASEAN in Covid-19 pandemic particularly in losing out to Indonesia, a nation with eight times the population of Malaysia, in both daily Covid-19 caseload and daily Covid-19 deaths in the past month.
For the last 18 days, Malaysia had been losing out to Indonesia in both categories. Read the rest of this entry »