Needs-based, not race-based


GABUNGAN Bertindak Malaysia (GBM) welcomes the pledge made by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to accelerate the transition from race-based affirmative action economic plans to those that are needs-based when he becomes the prime minister.

The New Economic Policy (NEP) was launched in 1971 with the twin objectives of eradicating poverty irrespective of ethnicity, and restructuring society to eliminate the identification of race with economic functions.

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