From distant beginnings as a key South-east Asian trading settlement, Melaka has since grown into a vibrant, multicultural, global entrepot – in many ways, a distillation of modern Malaysia. Like the country too, the state is also now looking towards the future, with its sights firmly set on the power of the sun, travel and space – as well as on...
Despite its high exposure to trade, Malaysia continued to enjoy a relatively strong rate of expansion in 2012. Soft global demand for manufacturing exports and volatile palm oil prices failed to dent domestic consumer confidence. The local corporate sector and households powered ahead with spending, while government investment plans were supported...
Along with its neighbours, Malaysia has remained a beacon of economic optimism, maintaining a positive trajectory as Western economies have faltered in recent years. While the country’s GDP growth has been sustained over the last few decades, the engines of growth continue to be expanded, improved and reinvented to adapt to a changing global...
In July 2012 the European Central Bank and the Central Bank of China reduced interest rates. What does this mean for these economies?
Politically driven yet focused on private sector growth, the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), launched in 2010, is beginning to have a tangible impact on Malaysia’s economic and social development. Foreign investors are advised to pay close attention to the entry point projects (EPPs), which have become the main platform for new private...
The government has long sought to deepen the country’s links with its neighbours, as well as with the wider Asia-Pacific community. The country became a founding member of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) with this goal in mind – and ASEAN has gone from strength to strength ever since. Now, the association is facing some of...
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