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Support women entrepreneurs through Budget 2027 by helping businesses raise production and reach more customers, a Malaysian association has urged. Persatuan Usahawan Wawasan Wanita Malaysia honorary advisor Datin Dr Hartini Osman said financing, training and business development assistance should help women move beyond keeping operations afloat.

Fresh ONS calculations last week recast the UK’s post-crisis productivity story: output per hour is now judged to have advanced by an average 1.3% a year from 2010 to 2019, not 0.7%. That puts the rebound closer to the pre-crisis norm of about 2% a year. The step up mainly reflects the ONS’s updated view…