KUALA LUMPUR: The second-round of economic package to cushion the impact of Covid-19 on the country should have a slight change of strategy from "stimulating" the economy to "protecting" the productive potential as both the health and economic crises worsen, said Khazanah Research Institute (KRI).
It said the central tenets of this protection strategy should focus on a massive employment-retention programme to ensure households have enough resources to ride out the pandemic in the next few months as firms take cost-cutting measures.