‘Govt must not indulge in business’


ALTHOUGH we at the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) are preparing for our 10th anniversary with old hard drives being scoured for photos, our research and advocacy continues, and the team has been active on a topic that has always been of interest to us: the role of government in the economy.

An early pamphlet we issued in 2011 titled The Tunku’s Great Ideas noted that our first prime minister said that “the government does not have the business experience or know-how to undertake business directly itself”.

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