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Make EPF account restructuring a step towards more comprehensive reform

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My Say: Introduce universal child benefits for inclusive social protection

Children are among the most important resources Malaysia can rely on to drive future growth. Unfortunately, child indicators on several dimensions show deterioration in recent years. The economic fallout induced by Covid-19 will further aggravate this situation if due attention is not given to reverse these trends.

My Say: Health for all in Malaysia is imperative

The latest publication of Khazanah Research Institute (KRI), Health and Social Protection: Continuing Universal Health Coverage, advocates better health protection as part of more comprehensive social protection. Following KRI’s earlier report, Building Resilience: Towards Inclusive Social Protection in Malaysia, it recommends social policies to protect people over the different major stages of human life: childhood, working life and old age.

My Say: Social protection for all, Malaysia?

Various gaps in social protection and equality factors have long been felt by the vulnerable precariat as Malaysian leaders continue to remind the public of the nation’s imminent achievement of developed or, more recently, high-income country status. At the moment, however, barely half the Malaysian labour force is eligible for pensions or covered by the Employees Provident Fund (EPF). Even before recent pandemic-induced withdrawals, more than four-fifths of EPF members would not have received enough after retiring to put them over the poverty line!

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