BUKIT LANJAN: Going bankrupt? World Bank expects Malaysia to post 4.3% GDP growth this year


BUKIT LANJAN: Going bankrupt? World Bank expects Malaysia to post 4.3% GDP growth this year

The confidence of investors, both local and foreign, in Malaysia should now be boosted with the World Bank giving the country a positive outlook.

Again, this must be another blow for political doomsayers who have in the past two years been warning that Malaysia is set to go bust, financially and economically. (Read this for context: http://bukitlanjan.blogspot.my/2017/04/bukit-lanjan-malaysia-to-go-bankrupt.html)

Gerakan Deputy Speaker Syed Abdul Razak Alsagoff said the World Bank’s assessment that Malaysia’s gross domestic product (GDP) this year would improve to 4.3%, up from 4.2% in 2016, should allay fears of an economic nightmare”.

“The growth is expected to be driven by private consumption. This means Malaysians will continue to earn and survive through the current sluggish global economy.

“Even the World Bank acknowledges that it had taken account of the global environment in assessing Malaysia’s GDP growth. It has also projected the GDP to accelerate in 2018 and 2019,” he added.


Syed Razak, who is Gerakan’s nominee to contest N.37 Bukit Lanjan in the coming 14th General Election (GE14), said the World Bank cited higher government subsidies, more infrastructure spending and rising exports as factors capable of pushing up Malaysia’s economy this year.

“This can only mean Malaysia’s fiscal and economic policies and roadmap in attracting foreign investments, especially from China and India, are spot on.

“What Malaysia needs now are loyal citizens working extremely hard to earn and, directly or indirectly, contribute to nation-building. Not blindly condemning and criticising all and sundry,” he added.

Syed Razak said there was no reason for Malaysia not to progress valiantly economically if they unite and spend all their time on positive nation-building activities.

Here’s online news portal Free Malaysia Today’s report the World Bank:

"World Bank expects Malaysia to post 4.3% GDP growth
Bernama

| April 13, 2017

The bank sees the country recording a modest GDP growth this year, driven by private consumption.



KUALA LUMPUR: The World Bank expects Malaysia’s to record a modest gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 4.3% this year from 4.2% in 2016, driven by private consumption.

But the GDP is projected to accelerate in 2018 and 2019.

Higher government subsidies, more infrastructure spending and rising exports are the factors capable of pushing up Malaysia’s economy in 2017 and improving next year to up to 4.5%.

World Bank Country Manager/Representative to Malaysia Faris Hadad-Zervos said: “We know the global environment is such that there is a lot of uncertainty and the economy also depends on the trade environment and trade protectionism.

“It also depends on how the US economy is going to fare and any potential US Federal Reserve rate hike impact, and Malaysia being an open economy is susceptible to all these risks.”

He said this after a briefing by the World Bank on the East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, the bank’s semi-annual review of the region’s developing economies, here today."

N.37 LET BUKIT LANJAN SOAR WITH SYED ABDUL RAZAK ALSAGOFF

Comments

  1. A rather informative article. I would really hope for a exuberant economic climate to escalate in Malaysia.

    Our citizens are loyal and hardworking tax~payers. The prospect of not over~burdening the working machinery must be taken into account on all fronts. As in the wisdom and adagè of removing all the 'spanners in the works'.

    There has to be a decent halt to the belligerent politicking and instead concentrate on seeing to how the economic indicators are enhanced.

    The basic needs of the people, who are consumers at large ought to be addressed and redressed if it has a negative inpact. The goodies must flow to all aspects of society.

    In the end the numbers game must be cognizant of the deliverables not just a chin~wag or handing out prizes at 'lucky~draws' via~a~vis at political rallies as crowd pullers.

    Every citizen on this Blessed Land of Fortunes must be a winner, not just a select few.

    Malaysia is after all an economy poised for greater times ahead. The leadership and ship steerers must also galvanize that into achievements not rhetorical theatrics.

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