Expert calls on govt to keep economy going as 'people need to live'

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Jomo Kwame Sundaram says the country needs countercyclical policies.

The country needs to learn and rethink basic assumptions about the economy for it to move forward and help people in distress, said prominent economist Jomo Kwame Sundaram.

"You need to have countercyclical policies. And that is why I welcomed the Prihatin when it first came out last year but it was not sustained. People need to live, they need to keep the economy going...

 

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expert just care their money not care about Covid...am I wrong?

The country needs to learn and rethink basic assumptions about the economy for it to move forward and help people in distress. You need to have countercyclical policies, said prominent economist Jomo Kwame Sundaram who was Tun M economic advisor when Tun M was PH PM

Tell us something thatnwe dont know, for example how to solve the problem, raising the issue is not act of intelligence, work it out

Rafizi Ramli, if you think you are smart, debate with this guy. I will get first class front row ticket. Let’s see what bullet you have

Selangor Gov asked for factories shut down, expert call for continue business. Survival involve health and wealth, if only allow to choice one, health always priority. Vaccination the only exit strategy, lockdown without vaccine, same thing will repeat and repeat again.

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