Riding the post-pandemic economic waves

Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Aziz said: In hindsight, Covid-19 may well be the crisis that accelerates tech adoption in helping our people catapult out of the middle-income trap, and in shaping Malaysia into a fully digital economy in her own right. The moment is at hand."

THE year 2020 was an annus horribilis by any definition, and while there is now light at the end of the Covid tunnel with the arrival of vaccines on many shores worldwide, the world still has to grapple with its aftermath.

At the time of writing, slightly over a year has passed since I took office at the Ministry of Finance (MoF). The appointed cabinet members of the new government had barely warmed their ministerial seats when the MCO 1.0 announcement was made to contain the spread of Covid-19.