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Malaysia’s Mahathir: NEP has created extra graduates, however bumiputras nonetheless ‘lack enterprise abilities’ – NEWPAPER24
Malaysia’s Mahathir: NEP has created extra graduates, however bumiputras nonetheless ‘lack enterprise abilities’
2021-11-06 03:00:20
Malaysia’s elder statesman Mahathir Mohamad just lately spoke to This Week in Asia on the New Financial Coverage (NEP), the 50-year-old affirmative motion programme that advantages the nation’s majority Malays and aboriginal teams, referred to as “bumiputras” (sons of the soil).The 96-year-old politician twice served as Malaysia’s prime minister, together with a stint from 1981 to 2003, throughout which the NEP was broadly expanded.Mahathir backed the continuation of the NEP, often known as the bumiputra coverage,…
