The country is trapped in the middle-income regime for so long. Other countries which were even below us before have now overtaken us. We need to do some thing urgently and make a giant leap to be a high-income nation. Its not impossible because we have done it before and we can do it again. I say we have done it before..during Mahathir regime we manage to transform from an agriculture based economy to manufacturing based economy. Now during the Najib regime we need to make a quantum leap from manufacturing to creative, innovative and high-value added economy. I think Najib is trying his best by annoucing many new things including the new economic model, the NKRAs, liberalization and most of all the 1Malaysia concept. He is trying to make ppl buy his ideas and concepts to break the country away from the middle income trap.
As always theories,concepts and plans are good only in paper unless translated into action and implementation. The only problem is slow implementation. We are always lacking in implementation. People talk a lot but not aggresive in carrying out the real work on the ground. The other hurdle is that there are lots of manipulation in implementation which deviates the original intention. At last, all quarters blame the government.. the government always become the `scape goat' for failures.
Come Malaysians. We need to move. We need to be one in heart to make this Quantum Leap a reality.
As i said ..we did it b4 and we can do it again.
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How to transform from labor based economy to knowledge based economy when millions of foreign workers are working in this country? Employers, i believe, wont use and invest in automation to their production when they can easily get cheap (and unskilled) workers.
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