The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) updated its 2019 Household Income Survey to account for what happened in 2020 via its Household Income Estimates and Incidence of Poverty Report. There was also the Salaries and Wages Survey for 2020, which complemented the household income survey, with equally startling findings. If resiliency, including economic resiliency, depends on social well-being as it is broadly defined, then policy objectives should be about developing and protecting social well-being. In other words, political continuity alone does not lend itself to enhanced social well-being. Over 60 years of five-year plans and supposed social engineering did not see social well-being being optimised.
