Why do we let others measure us?


All those international evaluations of the state of education, press freedom or our workforce, etc, don’t take into account local circumstances that weigh heavily in such matters.

MALAYSIANS often react strongly to news about how the country is doing according to international performance indices in all sorts of areas, from education and press freedom levels to how happy we are.

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