{"id":14629,"date":"2014-10-17T17:02:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T09:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=14629"},"modified":"2014-10-18T19:44:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T11:44:36","slug":"2755-federal-grants-to-malaysian-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=14629","title":{"rendered":"[2755] Federal grants to Malaysian states in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of discussions about federal-state relations, especially with respect to Sabah and Sarawak. But I find those discussions and the points stressed are really hard to pin down in terms of numbers. So, I am putting the following chart up, mostly\u00a0for my own purpose, and perhaps, also for the make benefit for\u00a0glorious people of<\/del> the benefit of others interested in the debate.<\/p>\n

Here is a chart presenting\u00a0all the federal grants paid by the federal government to all the 13 states in Malaysia:<\/p>\n


\n<\/a>\"20141017FederalGrantToStates\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I obtained them from the federal government’s\u00a0Anggaran Perbelanjaan Persekutuan 2015<\/em> document that was released on Budget Day last week. If you are interested in it, the figures can be found in Annex E of the document.<\/p>\n

I apologize for the colors.<\/p>\n

I have to highlight that this chart contains only grants. Things like petroleum royalties are not included because those are paid by Petronas, not the federal government.<\/p>\n

And this of course presents only\u00a0one side of the story. It\u00a0would be interesting to collate all of government spending as well as income that went\u00a0to\/came from each state. Then we can calculate the balance. By doing so, we can know\u00a0which state is the net recipient or contributor in this federation of ours. That perhaps could back any argument with some kind of data rather than merely strong beliefs.\u00a0The exercise may sound simple, as if it involves just going through the government accounts. But federal spending can be so distributed among ministries and various bodies that essentially are linked back to the government that tracking them can be a real challenge.<\/p>\n

That said, the relationship we maintain in this federation goes beyond fiscal matters. Just do not be too fixed on the economics. I think it is safe to say that economics is not nearly everything there is in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of discussions about federal-state relations, especially with respect to Sabah and Sarawak. But I find those discussions and the points stressed are really hard to pin down in terms of numbers. So, I am putting the following chart up, mostly\u00a0for my own purpose, and perhaps, also for the make benefit for\u00a0glorious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[1111,1680],"class_list":["post-14629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics-government","tag-fiscal-policy","tag-grants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14629"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14642,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions\/14642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}