Upcoming Budget should focus on new growth engines, services sector


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KUALA LUMPUR: Budget 2017 should highlight on ‘new economic engines of growth,’ said Khazanah Nasional managing director Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar.

“Aside from being pro growth and pro development, the budget would also need to assist new engines of growth such as Iskandar Development Region and the telecommunication sector,” he told reporters at sidelines of the Khazanah Megatrends Forum 2016 on Monday. 

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