NIMP And Budget 2024, Singing The Same Tune

Tengku Dato' Sri Utama Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, Minister of Investment, Trade & Industry Malaysia | Ong Kian Ming, Director of the Philosophy, Politics and Economy Programme, Taylor’s University, Former Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry

17-Oct-23 08:00

NIMP And Budget 2024, Singing The Same Tune

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The New Industrial Plan has lofty targets by 2030 from value adding RM587bn to GDP, creating 3.3mn jobs and pushing the average salary to RM 4510. We speak with Minister of Miti and previous Deputy Minister; Tengku Dato Zafrul Aziz and Ong Kian Ming to find out if the NIMP hits the mark or is it too old school economics whilst seeing if there was alignment with Budget 2024.

Produced by: Wong Shou Ning

Presented by: Wong Shou Ning

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Categories: government, politics, economy

Tags: nimp, budget 2024, umno,

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