Budget 2012 Reveals Malaysia’s Structural Problems

By Chan Huan Chiang

December 2011 COVER STORY
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The public sector budget defines the role of government. Citizens have to decide how big they want their government to be for it to articulate sufficiently well what it must do for the people. This, in essence, is what a budget is all about.Heavy handed or the “invisible hand”?The main economic purpose of government is to ensure the delivery of public goods –these being goods that would not be equitably accessible if left to the free market to supply. Believers...

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Chan Huan Chiang

is a senior research fellow at the Penang Institute.

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