Budget 2024: Hit Or Miss?

Julia Goh, Senior Economist, UOB Malaysia

16-Oct-23 07:30

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The RM393.8 billion ringgit Budget 2024 hopes to see Malaysia's fiscal deficit narrow from 5% this year to 4.3% of GDP for 2024. Julia Goh, Senior Economist at UOB Malaysia breaks the details down further for us as she assesses how the phasing out of diesel subsidies, the end of chicken and egg price controls and the continuation of targeted electricity subsidies based on consumption might affect Malaysia's economic fortunes.

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Categories: economy

Tags: diesel subsidies, chicken and egg price control, targeted electricity subsidies, budget 2024, belanjawan 2024, budget-2024-mahsing,

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