IN a recent interview with a vernacular newspaper, Second Finance Minister Datuk Johari Abdul Ghani brought up a matter that is seldom highlighted publicly – the size of the Malaysian public sector.
He said the country’s 1.6 million government employees formed “the world’s largest proportion of civil service”.
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