Setting them free to grow 


WHEN Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan took to LinkedIn recently to defend government-linked investment companies (GLICs) and government linked companies (GLCs) as “ecosystem enablers, not market dominators,” he stepped into a long-running debate: how large should the state’s footprint in business really be?

In principle, his argument is not without merit.

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