Tengku Zafrul’s missed ‘golden opportunity’ for changes

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PETALING JAYA: The 2022 budget was a missed “golden opportunity” to make real changes, noted economist Jomo Kwame Sundaram told a public forum today, while an MP said budget proposals should come under greater parliamentary scrutiny.

Jomo, a noted economist and former government adviser, said the missed opportunity was “something quite sad”.

The 2022 budget, being a pre-election budget, was the perfect time for finance minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz, who is not an MP, to reduce the political elements in government budgets, he said.

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