To be or not to be?

That is the question confronting Malaysia’s state-linked companies. Should the government sell its stake in them as they are embroiled in controversy after controversy?

The issue becomes starker because the country’s government-linked firms account for about half the benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index, and they constitute 7 out of the top-10 listed firms in 2018.

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Jayant Menon is a lead economist at the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department of the Asian Development Bank, Manila.

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