Malaysia does not have deep government reserves to draw from, and will need to rejig budget 2020 allocations and even designate the RM19 billion wage subsidy as development expenditure to keep from busting spending limits.
The central bank has increased its dividend to RM3.5 billion from RM2 billion last year and Petronas is expected to part with proceeds from stake sales in listed subsidiaries last year.
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