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NSTletters: The 2020 Budget has done well in leveraging our strength across sectors with focus on areas of concern such as education, services, manufacturing, oil palm, women, youth and inequality. 2020Budget

It is generous with incentives and opportunities, but the crux lies in implementation and monitoring.

Hopefully, this will boost our fertility rate given that the national fertility rate last year declined to 15.8 births per 1,000 people compared with 16.1 births in 2017, the lowest level recorded since 1963. The data indicates our population is shrinking, as the average number of babies born to a woman is not sufficient to replace her and her partner.

Women’s economic empowerment will require removing barriers to create more productive employment, educational opportunities, labour force participation, employment and talent retention. The 2020 Budget is a manifestation of the government’s resolve to adopt pro-women and pro-family policies such as providing affordable childcare, increasing parental leave to 90 days of maternity leave, flexible working arrangement via online businesses and tax breaks for parents paying for children’s education.

 

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