We should export our way out of pandemic, suggest economists


Bernard Saw

PUTRAJAYA should put mega-infrastructure projects on hold and focus on spurring exports, domestic consumption and purchasing power to drive a recovery, said economists.

Though the call to freeze big infrastructure projects is contrary to calls by the construction sector, which believes that large projects will have a multiplier effect, economist Hoo Kee Ping said this would not be the case in projects where workers and materials are mostly from foreign countries.


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