Determinants of economic growth in Malaysia / Nur Mazidah Ahmad

• Main Author: Ahmad, Nur Mazidah
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Economics; Consumption. Demand (Economic theory); Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/39024/1/39024.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/39024/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita is used to measure the country’s economic growth. This study tend to examine to examine the relationship of some chosen determinants (household consumption, foreign direct investment, inflation, population and trade) with economic growth in Malaysia. This research conducted by using time series data from year 1966 to 2016. Overall, the result shows that household consumption and trade give a significant impact towards the development of economy where household consumption give positive effect, while trade give negative effect towards economic growth. It is also shown that foreign direct investment, inflation and population does not have significant impact with economic growth. Besides that, 64.45% of the result of independent variables can be explained by the changes in economic growth. The remaining 35.55% can be explained by other variables.