Kota Kinabalu: The IDS (institute for Development Studies) praised the spirit of the revised 2023 budget, which it said is very much people-centric and strongly driven by human values.
“The principal end-game is to nurture and promote inclusion, institutional reform, and social justice. These values definitely sit well with the most prevailing grass-root sentiments at the moment,” CEO Datuk Dr Ts Razmah Dambul.
However, he said, it gave too much emphasis on the societal socioeconomic gap, and not enough attention on the regional disparity.