SYDNEY -- There are worrying early signs that Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak is stepping back from tackling the most important reforms of his New Economic Model (NEM), according to John Lee, Foreign Policy Research Fellow for the Australian think-tank, the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS).
In a report titled "Malaysian Dilemma: The Enduring Cancer of Affirmative Action", Lee argues that Razak's New Economic Model is the first step in acknowledging the harmful effects of Malaysia's affirmative action policies.
Introduced after the May 1969 race riots to address socio-economic racial divisions, the affirmative action policies are now linked to many of …
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