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Social Safety Nets Amid A Crisis

Hj Ihsan Zainal Mokhtar, President, Malaysian Institute of Planners | Professor Dr Geoffrey Williams, Economist and Dean, Institute of Postgraduate Studies at the Malaysia University of Science and Technology | Charles Santiago, Klang MP

03-Jan-22 18:00

Social Safety Nets Amid A Crisis

We look a how the floods have affected our most vulnerable communities, and explore questions of whether low-cost housing is being built in flood prone areas and if there are enough social safety nets in place when such crises hit.


Image Source: Yusnizam Yusof, Shutterstock

Produced by: Adeline Choong, Lee Chwi Lynn, Natasha Fusil, Raihanna Azwar

Presented by: Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharmilla Ganesan


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Categories:  personal financeenvironment

Tags:  evening editioninside storyfloodlow cost housingb40human rightsfinancial securityfinancial aidgovernmentmofepf





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