Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email The affirmative action plan to help Bumiputras under New Economic Policy has not deterred Malaysia from emerging as the world’s fastest growing developing nation, former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said today.
“In any case, the policy to help Bumiputras is not doing anybody any harm,” he told reporters after delivering a keynote address at the international conference on “Gold Dinar Economy 2007.”
“Other developing countries without an affirmative policy cannot do as well as Malaysia, so why are we people questioning the policy,” he said in response to calls to review the policy.
“We have reconsidered the policy, made amendments, reduced the affirmative action but in certain areas we still need affirmation action.
In any case it is not doing anybody any harm,” he said.
