Widefare July 04, 2013 at 06:13PM

Has this survey not further affirmed the problems in Malaysia? Middle-class Malaysians (mostly urbanites of a certain background) are so heavily taxed to substantially support a particular group of the government's discriminatory liking. "Malaysia, however, has achieved depth (spending 27% of per-person GDP on each beneficiary) without breadth (its efforts reached only 14% of potential beneficiaries for the year the index was calculated)."

via Facebook http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21580531-asias-emerging-welfare-states-spread-themselves-thinly-widefare THE welfare states pioneered in Europe and America are not universally admired in Asia. In 2001 Singapore’s then prime minister argued that handouts would result...