Moving away from handouts

Moving away from handouts

THE rising costs of living, and the burden of a crippled economy brought about by the abuses and mismanagement of the previous government is felt by everyone.

In response, the present government decided to implement Bantuan Sara Hidup (BSH), a scaled-down and more targeted version of BR1M (1Malaysia People’s Aid).

This is just one of many socio-economic support mechanisms that the government has implemented to deal with poverty. However socio-economic support mechanisms like the BSH are not sustainable and are not meant to be long-term solutions.Economic problems cannot be solved with handouts especially if the problems are structural and institutional.Cash aid […]

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