Factors affecting economic growth in Malaysia / Zulhelmi Firdaus Azmi and Tengku Nur Syafiqah Tengku Subri

Economic growth (GDP) plays an important roles to ensure a better position of economic and positive image of a country. Malaysia's economic growth in term of GDP (annual %) were declining in 1975, 1985, 1997 and 2009. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between inflation, forei...

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Main Authors: Azmi, Zulhelmi Firdaus, Tengku Subri, Tengku Nur Syafiqah
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business and Management 2019
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23611/
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description Economic growth (GDP) plays an important roles to ensure a better position of economic and positive image of a country. Malaysia's economic growth in term of GDP (annual %) were declining in 1975, 1985, 1997 and 2009. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between inflation, foreign direct investment (FDI), exchange rate, government expenditure, and export on economic growth of Malaysia by using the time series data yearly basis from 1970 to 2017. This study used secondary data to be run in the E-views software while the models that being used is Multiple Linear Regression to find the relationship between all independent variables and dependent variable. Based on the empirical result, government expenditure and export has a positive and significant effect while inflation and foreign direct investment (FDI) has positive but insignificant effect on economic growth. Meanwhile exchange rate shows significant but has a negative relationship with GDP. Therefore, this study might be useful for policy makers, investors and public.
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spelling uitm-236112019-03-29T01:18:45Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23611/ Factors affecting economic growth in Malaysia / Zulhelmi Firdaus Azmi and Tengku Nur Syafiqah Tengku Subri Azmi, Zulhelmi Firdaus Tengku Subri, Tengku Nur Syafiqah Economics Macroeconomics Consumption. Demand (Economic theory) Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product Economic growth (GDP) plays an important roles to ensure a better position of economic and positive image of a country. Malaysia's economic growth in term of GDP (annual %) were declining in 1975, 1985, 1997 and 2009. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between inflation, foreign direct investment (FDI), exchange rate, government expenditure, and export on economic growth of Malaysia by using the time series data yearly basis from 1970 to 2017. This study used secondary data to be run in the E-views software while the models that being used is Multiple Linear Regression to find the relationship between all independent variables and dependent variable. Based on the empirical result, government expenditure and export has a positive and significant effect while inflation and foreign direct investment (FDI) has positive but insignificant effect on economic growth. Meanwhile exchange rate shows significant but has a negative relationship with GDP. Therefore, this study might be useful for policy makers, investors and public. Faculty of Business and Management 2019 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23611/1/PPb_ZULHELMI%20FIRDAUS%20AZMI%20M%20BM%2019_5.pdf Azmi, Zulhelmi Firdaus and Tengku Subri, Tengku Nur Syafiqah (2019) Factors affecting economic growth in Malaysia / Zulhelmi Firdaus Azmi and Tengku Nur Syafiqah Tengku Subri. (2019) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/23611.pdf> (Unpublished)
spellingShingle Economics
Macroeconomics
Consumption. Demand (Economic theory)
Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product
Azmi, Zulhelmi Firdaus
Tengku Subri, Tengku Nur Syafiqah
Factors affecting economic growth in Malaysia / Zulhelmi Firdaus Azmi and Tengku Nur Syafiqah Tengku Subri
title Factors affecting economic growth in Malaysia / Zulhelmi Firdaus Azmi and Tengku Nur Syafiqah Tengku Subri
title_full Factors affecting economic growth in Malaysia / Zulhelmi Firdaus Azmi and Tengku Nur Syafiqah Tengku Subri
title_fullStr Factors affecting economic growth in Malaysia / Zulhelmi Firdaus Azmi and Tengku Nur Syafiqah Tengku Subri
title_full_unstemmed Factors affecting economic growth in Malaysia / Zulhelmi Firdaus Azmi and Tengku Nur Syafiqah Tengku Subri
title_short Factors affecting economic growth in Malaysia / Zulhelmi Firdaus Azmi and Tengku Nur Syafiqah Tengku Subri
title_sort factors affecting economic growth in malaysia / zulhelmi firdaus azmi and tengku nur syafiqah tengku subri
topic Economics
Macroeconomics
Consumption. Demand (Economic theory)
Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23611/