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            Ideas and Actions For A Green State
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        Phee Boon PohIN 1992, Malaysia signed the United Nations’ Earth Summit Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Rio de Janerio. This gave r... 
    
    
    
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            Budget 2012 Reveals Malaysia’s Structural Problems
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        Heavy handed or the “invisible hand”?The main economic purpose of government is to ensure the delivery of public goods –these being goods th... 
    
    
    
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