Malaysia - Productivity and Investment Climate Assessment Update

In the decades prior to the Asian financial crisis, the Malaysian economy experienced rapid growth and a significant structural transformation. It went from an economy that relied on agriculture and commodities to one dominated by manufacturing and...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO FINANCING ACCOUNTING ADVERTISING AMOUNT OF COLLATERAL BANK LOAN BANK LOANS BIOTECHNOLOGY BUSINESS CLIMATE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS INDICATORS BUSINESS PERFORMANCE BUSINESS SECTOR BUSINESSES CAPABILITIES CAPABILITY CERTIFICATE COLLABORATION COLLATERAL REQUIREMENT COMMODITIES COMMODITY COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPETITIVE PRACTICES COMPETITIVENESS COMPUTERS CONCESSIONARY RATE CONCESSIONARY TAX CONFIDENCE OF INVESTORS CORPORATE FINANCE CORPORATE TAX CORPORATE TAX RATE CORPORATE TAXES CURRENT ACCOUNT SURPLUS CURRENT ACCOUNT SURPLUSES CUSTOMS CUSTOMS CLEARANCE DELIVERY SYSTEM DIVIDENDS DOMESTIC CREDIT DOMESTIC INVESTMENT E-PAYMENT ELECTRICITY EQUIPMENT EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES EXPORT PERFORMANCE FINANCIAL CRISIS FINANCIAL SECTOR FINANCIAL SHOCKS FIRM PERFORMANCE FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOREIGN FIRMS FOREIGN FUND FOREIGN OWNERSHIP FUND MANAGEMENT GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS GROWTH RATE HOURLY WAGE HOURLY WAGES HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN RESOURCE ICT INCOME INCOME LEVEL INCOME TAX INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT CLIMATE INVESTMENT CLIMATE ASSESSMENT INVESTMENT CLIMATE CONSTRAINTS INVESTMENT CLIMATE ISSUES INVESTMENT DECISION INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT INVESTMENT GROWTH KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY LABOR MARKET LICENSE LICENSES LIVING STANDARDS LOAN MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT MACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY MANUFACTURING MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES MARKET EFFICIENCY MARKETING NATURAL RESOURCES NEW TECHNOLOGIES OUTPUT OVERDRAFT FACILITY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS PHONE CONNECTION PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY RESPONSE POST-CRISIS PERIOD POWER OUTAGES PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC SPENDING R&D RAPID GROWTH READING MATERIALS REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT REGULATORY FRAMEWORK REGULATORY REGIME REGULATORY REGIMES REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS RESERVES RESULT RESULTS RETAINED EARNINGS RETURN RETURNS SAVINGS SECURITY COSTS SETTLEMENT SHAREHOLDERS SKILL SHORTAGES SKILLED WORKERS SKILLS SHORTAGE SKILLS SHORTAGES TAX TAX PAYMENTS TAX RATE TAX RATES TAX REGIME TAX SYSTEM TAX TREATMENT TECHNICAL SKILLS TECHNICIANS TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION TELECOMMUNICATION TELECOMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES TELEPHONE TELEPHONE SERVICES TREASURY USES VALUE CHAIN VALUE OF COLLATERAL WORKING CAPITAL WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
Online Access:	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333037_20091108232259 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3127

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Summary:	In the decades prior to the Asian financial crisis, the Malaysian economy experienced rapid growth and a significant structural transformation. It went from an economy that relied on agriculture and commodities to one dominated by manufacturing and services. Since then, however, Malaysia's growth has slowed to a level well below its key competitors in Asia, including the large labor-surplus economies of China and India. The economy seems to be caught in a middle-income trap, unable to remain competitive as a high-volume, low-cost producer and unable to move up the value chain and achieve rapid growth by breaking into fast growing markets for knowledge, and innovation-based products and services. The Malaysian authorities have expressed their commitment to regain their earlier growth and reposition their economy as a rapidly growing, knowledge-based, high value-added and high income economy. A key element of their strategy is to encourage Malaysians to invest more of their savings at home, instead of abroad. Equally important is the need to improve the quality of that investment. As part of this effort, the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) of the Prime Minister's Department launched a second Malaysia Productivity and Investment Climate Survey in 2007 (PICS-II) to assess whether and how the investment environment had changed since the first survey in 2002 (PICS-I). This report presents the analytical results of the second survey, which covers nine manufacturing industries and five selected business support services industries.

Malaysia - Productivity and Investment Climate Assessment Update

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