50 Years of NEP: The Good, The Bad and The Future
REFSA Comm Director Iskandar Fareez along with Hwok Aun Lee of ISEAS discusses NEP’s key lessons, impacts, and implications for Malaysia’s future on BFM podcast.
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#ProjekMuhibah – 5 Steps to Assess Risk of Transmission for Businesses
The government must move away from arbitrary distinctions between "essential" vs "non-essential" sectors. Instead, we need to consider how to gradually re-open businesses using science-based approaches. Here's how.
Mengapa kita perlu hadkan tempoh PM?
Fakhrurrazi Rashid, Koordinator Penyelidik REFSA menyatakan menghadkan tempoh PM adalah langkah pertama untuk mengelak pemusatan kuasa kepada satu sosok yang boleh menyalahgunakan kuasa.
#ProjekMuhibah Strategy 3 – Continued and Targeted Economic Assistance
In REFSA's #ProjekMuhibah series, Strategy 3 calls for continued and targeted assistance to businesses and individuals. See infographics here.
Think tanks put forward alternative approaches in fight against Covid-19
The current lockdown is hurting the livelihood of Malaysians. Government must move past arbitrary distinctions between “essential” & “non-essential sectors, focusing instead on applying dynamic SOPs & targeted economic assistance to businesses.
Politik | Kerajaan dan pembangkang perlu cari jalan tengah
Bagi menstabilkam keadaan politik, kesepakatan dwipartisan bagi menetapkan tarikh pilihan raya agar dapat meredekan suhu politik negara yang kian tidak menentu.
More cash injection needed to save businesses
Iskandar Fareez opined that fiscal measures in PEMULIH are insufficient, calling for more injections. Instead of categorising businesses as ‘essential/‘non-essential’, mass preventive testing and risk-based assessments should be carried out to decide which businesses can reopen.
Projek Muhibah Strategy #3 : Continued and Targeted Economic Assistance to Employers and Employees
In #ProjekMuhibah Strategy 3, we propose a comprehensive strategy for governments to raise fiscal spending and provide immediate economic assistance to those hit-hardest by the pandemic.
Comprehensive strategy to save lives and livelihoods needed now more than ever, given failure of FMCO and NRP to manage crisis
The EMCO goes to show that the country still lacks a solid strategy to effectively control and manage the pandemic, with a continued reliance on misguided lockdowns that have been a lose-lose situation for lives and livelihoods.
Strategi komprehensif untuk menyelamatkan nyawa dan punca pendapatan diperlukan segera akibat kegagalan PKP Penuh dan PPN untuk menguruskan krisis dalam negara
Negara kita masih kekurangan strategi yang kukuh untuk mengawal dan menangani wabak COVID19 dengan berkesan, di mana kita terus bergantung kepada penutupan sektor ekonomi dan sosial yang membawa kepada situasi di mana kita melihat kerosakan kepada nyawa dan punca pendapatan rakyat.