{"id":5688,"date":"2009-12-07T18:43:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T07:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2009-12-08T20:06:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T09:06:44","slug":"2125-of-we-build-buildings-to-increase-our-gdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=5688","title":{"rendered":"[2125] Of we build buildings to increase our GDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>KULA LUMPUR: Three sites in the city have been identified for the development of iconic structures to spur growth in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say they are Dataran Perdana in Jalan Davis, the area surrounding Stadium Merdeka and the vicinity of the Matrade Centre in Jalan Duta.<\/p>\n<p>All the plots of land are privately owned. Two belong to government-linked companies \u2014 Pelaburan Hartanah Bumiputera Bhd and Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) \u2014 while the Naza group owns 25ha in the vicinity of the Matrade Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Economists were recently briefed by the Economic Planning Unit in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department on the implementation of the iconic projects, as part of efforts to boost the country\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP). [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/articles\/20091207075841\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>100-storey skyscrapers planned for Kuala Lumpur<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Vasantha Ganesan. Presenna Nambiar. New Straits Times. December 7 2009]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Urm, yeah, okay&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/><\/p>\n<p>p\/s\u00a0\u2014 I cannot resist this. What a bull!<\/p>\n<p>We can definitely thank Keynesian thinking for this. Do you want greater aggregate demand? Build away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KULA LUMPUR: Three sites in the city have been identified for the development of iconic structures to spur growth in the economy. Sources say they are Dataran Perdana in Jalan Davis, the area surrounding Stadium Merdeka and the vicinity of the Matrade Centre in Jalan Duta. All the plots of land are privately owned. Two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1006,45],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-economic-growth","tag-kuala-lumpur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","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=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5695,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions\/5695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}