Government focused on economic recovery efforts


Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz, (pic) the government’s four economic stimulus packages amounting to RM305bil or 20% of gross domestic product (GDP) are estimated to have contributed four percentage points to last year’s economic growth.

PETALING JAYA: The government’s swift move in rolling out stimulus measures has helped to save the national economy from a worse slump in 2020, amid the Covid-19-induced crisis.

According to Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz, (pic) the government’s four economic stimulus packages amounting to RM305bil or 20% of gross domestic product (GDP) are estimated to have contributed four percentage points to last year’s economic growth.

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