Negative impacts from the present state of emergency could have been addressed by a government with expertise to manage the economy, economist Muhammed Abdul Khalid said today.<br /><br />Under the current Perikatan Nasional government, Muhammed said there were many "wasted opportunities" to introduce much-needed reforms in various areas.<br /><br />"Good times are bad for reforms. Nobody wants to do reforms during good times.<br /><br />"But in bad times, that is the time to do comprehensive and brutal kind of reforms," Muhammed (above) said during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur with the Tolak Darurat committee.<br /><br />The discussion on the impacts of emergency on the economy also featured economists Nungsari Ahmad Radhi and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
