Malaysia’s system of racial preferences should be scrapped Its benefits are debatable and its costs calamitous

Since 1971 Malaysia has given preferential treatment in everything from education to investing to bumiputeras—people of indigenous descent, who are two-thirds of the population but poorer than their ethnic-Chinese and -Indian compatriots

Editorial | Malaysia’s system of racial preferences should be scrapped

Its benefits are debatable and its costs calamitous

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