Affirmative action can be removed if inter-racial wealth gap addressed - Dr M

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Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said that if the inter-racial wealth gap can be addressed, then it would be possible to get rid of affirmative action policies.However, he said "greater corruption" had caused policies aimed at reducing the wealth gap to be unsuccessful."If you reduce the disparity, the jealousy, and the envy will be reduced. The country will be stable; then the country will grow."When the difference in terms of wealth is not so big, it is all right. We can do away with that (affirmative action)," Mahathir said, as reported by Singapore's Straits Times.Affirmative action policies which favour the Malay bumiputera have expanded since the introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1971.Mahathir said that this policy was partly successful as there are more Malay professionals now.However, bumiputera corporate equity was …