Malaysia’s economic recovery is highly uneven with the burden of adjustment disproportionally falling on the service sector, self-employed workers and those aged 25-34. Cumulative job destruction has far exceeded job creation in the services sector, although the manufacturing sector has already entered the recovery phase with positive net jobs creation.
However, existing schemes like PenjanaKerjaya and Program Subsidi Upah won’t be effective as mobility remains restricted and non-eligibility denies assistance. Programmes such as i-citra and loan moratorium, while helping to ease liquidity constraint, weakens the poor’s capacity to recover. What they need is temporary but recurring income support.
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