Our PM Najib is confident that his Economy Transformation Programme (ETP) works to make us a high income nation by 2020. To make this works, he as Minister of Finance has pump in many money to industries to push more activities going. It surely take time to see the impact, whether positive or negative. If you see the National Key Economy Area (NKEA), it still involves a lot of construction activities. From new MRT system, Greater Kuala Lumpur to education areas, please observe that in 12 NKEA, much money to be invested is to construct and re-construct the new building and set up. The money surely benefit those construction companies. We’re now moving into 3rd quarter fiscal year, with poor investments from foreign countries like China or US, experts expect the Malaysia economy growth will be mostly depend on the Najib’s ETP. Projects like new MRT system, new highway in Kuala Lumpur definitely boost up the stock shares of some construction companies. Despite the “hardware”, the government also pushing the TalentCorp to bring back Malaysians who left to work or reside in overseas. However, what most worrying us is that does the country has the platforms for them to show their talents? While Malaysia has been so much behind in technology, education, industry expertises compare to many countries, what can these talents do if they’re back in Malaysia?
Clearly, in that 12 NKEA, we can see how eagerly our PM wishing to get more job opportunities to young people. Instead of invest and make our university researches be world class, he prefer to bring in foreign universities like John Hopkin to Malaysia. Moreover, he seems not to realize that in order to get a country grow in high pace, the root is how solid the education system. Then we may ask, do we have a good education system? Even we do have a good education system, why we’re keep pushing more talents out to other countries like Singapore, China, Australia, US etc every year?
Is time to think whether this ETP does work to benefit the community, or to the politician or their relatives/close friends only. Of cause i myself desperately hope that this ETP works to improve our economy, at least to against a little bit of the inflation rises. But without considering the NEP and the growing racisms among some politicians, even this ETP works as success, no one will remember Najib as the one who bring fortune to the country but the one who split apart the unity of Malaysians in history. After all, that’s the very serious reason why most people choose to leave this country.
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and i left.
@richard, you're one of the talents. sadly this country doesn't appreciate us. we as biotech graduates also suffer and struggle very hard here. shall talk abt this in my next post.
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