PETALING JAYA: The government is being responsible in refusing calls for another round of special withdrawal of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), say economists.
PETALING JAYA: The government’s mechanism for rolling out the targeted subsidies programme for petrol and diesel must be credible and relayed properly to the public, says Socio-Economic Research Centre (SERC) executive director Lee Heng Guie.
All eyes are on the October inflation data due today, as experts anticipate price pressures to continue moderating and to take some burden off the government, whose popularity is tainted by the stubbornly high living costs.
With Bank Negara set to release the gross domestic product (GDP) growth figures for the third quarter (3Q23) tomorrow, all eyes will understandably be on whether the latest numbers will support the government’s growth projection of 4% to 5% for 2023.