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Is Malaysia Full Of Crony Businessmen?

Pushpan Murugiah, Acting CEO, Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism

08-May-23 08:45

Is Malaysia Full Of Crony Businessmen?

Malaysia came in 3rd in this year’s Economist Crony-Capitalism Index. Surprisingly Singapore is ranked 4th. So what defines a crony capitalist economy and how does it differ between Malaysia and Singapore? For answers to this and more, we are joined by Pushpan Murugiah, Acting CEO, Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism, or commonly known as C4.

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Produced by: Shazana Mokhtar

Presented by: Mark Tan, Wong Shou Ning, Philip See


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