‘Our economy is still recovering’


Moderate growth: An employees of the Statistics Department of Malaysia, Tengku Mazlin Tengku Ab Hamid, showing a copy of the survey report at the department in Putrajaya. — FAIHAN GHANI/The Star

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian household incomes have only recovered “moderately” from the dampening effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, reveals data from the Household Income and Expenditure Survey.

Socio-Economic Research Centre (SERC) executive director Lee Heng Guie said the country had yet to fully recover from the pandemic.

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