The hoopla over the annual budget has come and gone. And while some good measures were announced, Budget 2017 fails to reckon with one of the country’s most pressing issues: the shrinking domestic demand ravaged by the GST and depreciating ringgit.
THE year 2017 has been declared “Startup and SME Promotion Year” by the Malaysian Government when the Prime Minister tabled Budget 2017 a few weeks ago.
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