KUALA LUMPUR: The Cabinet is to meet next week to discuss politically unpopular changes to its subsidy regime for petrol, natural gas, food and road tolls.
Subsidies alone chewed up RM24.5bil in 2009, 15.3% of the total operating spending, pushing Malaysia’s budget deficit to a more than 20-year high of 7% of gross domestic product (GDP).
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