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Govt advised to take threat of losing FDI seriously 16 Jul 2021 / 10:30 H.
PETALING JAYA: It is a warning that Malaysia ignores at its own peril. This is the view shared by economist Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam in response to indications by foreign investors that they may be forced to pull out of the country if the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown persist.
Ramon, who spoke with theSun yesterday, also wondered if these were all signs of a crumbling economy.
“If FDI (foreign direct investments) are pulled out, it will be disastrous for our economy,” he said.
“I am aware that many have already countered the narrative that Malaysia is a failed state. However, with such (possibility of investors pulling out) coming to light, I cannot help but worry about the future of our nation,” he added.
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KUALA LUMPUR: While the country is going through various challenges, it is unfair to label Malaysia as a “failed state”, according to several economists.
Sunway University professor of economics Dr Yeah Kim Leng said people in the government, especially those involved in battling the pandemic and economic downturn, are without a doubt doing their utmost best to save lives and protect livelihoods.
“Despite the prevailing law and order, ongoing delivery of public services and well-functioning markets, though interrupted intermittently by lockdowns, the country has been unfairly stigmatised by the ‘failed state’ label,“ he told Bernama in an interview.
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PETALING JAYA: While the Covid-19 virus may be blamed for the massive job losses following the closure of many businesses, various industry players opine that the government could have done more to reduce the blow.
Mohd Effendy Abdul Ghani, deputy president of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress, told theSun that the various lockdowns have undoubtedly caused this widespread job losses.
“The government must look at things with a ‘helicopter view’ and should not just implement a nationwide blanket lockdown because not all states are facing a surge of Covid-19 cases,” he added.
He pointed out that states such as Terengganu and Perlis are not facing massive numbers of infections and should not be punished with lockdowns.
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Covid-19 but lately, it has faltered in several areas.
“The government has clearly missed the point,” social activist and economist Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam told
theSun in a no-holds-barred interview yesterday.
“We were once an example for the rest of the world to follow, but now we are at the bottom going by international standards.”
Ramon, who is a director at the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute, said coordination and correlation among stakeholders were “non-existent”.
“Apart from the slow roll-out of the vaccination programme, we also have to deal with illogical and arbitrary standard operating procedures.”