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Are GLCs and GLICs Living Up to Their Mandate?

P. Gunasegaram, Independent Business Writer

23-Oct-25 07:45

Are GLCs and GLICs Living Up to Their Mandate?

GLCs and GLICs play an outsized role in the Malaysian economy - but is there more chaff than wheat in the crowded ecosystem? And how can we hold these entities which have both commercial and social mandates to better account? We discuss this with independent business writer P. Gunasegaram.


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Produced by: Shazana Mokhtar

Presented by: Keith Kam, Shazana Mokhtar


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Categories:  government,  economy

Tags:  glic,  glc,  government-linked companies,  government-linked investment companies,  permodalan nasional bhd, 


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