Expert calls on govt to keep economy going as 'people need to live'

The country needs to learn and rethink basic assumptions about the economy for it to move forward and help people in distress, said prominent economist Jomo Kwame Sundaram.

"You need to have countercyclical policies. And that is why I welcomed the Prihatin (economic stimulus package) when it first came out last year but it was not sustained. People need to live, they need to keep the economy going...