Malaysia : Firm Competitiveness, Investment Climate and Growth

The objective of this report is to explore firm competitiveness, the investment climate, and growth in Malaysia. This report is structured as follows. The first two chapters provide an assessment of the investment climate. The last two chapters examine how productivity enhancing programs, skills and...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/06/6437874/malaysia-firm-competitiveness-investment-climate-growth
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spelling okr-10986-83102021-04-23T14:02:39Z Malaysia : Firm Competitiveness, Investment Climate and Growth World Bank ACCUMULATION ADDITION BANGLADESH BUSINESS MODELS BUSINESS SERVICES CHILE CHINA COLLABORATION COMMUNICATION SKILLS COMPARATOR COUNTRIES COMPLETION RATES CONTENT DOMESTIC INVESTMENT EAST ASIA EDUCATION EDUCATION POLICIES EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMERGING ENGINEERS ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATES ENVIRONMENT EXPENDITURES FOREIGN FIRMS FOREIGN INVESTMENT FOREIGN OWNERSHIP FORMAL EDUCATION GOOD INVESTMENT CLIMATE INCENTIVES INDIA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION INVESTMENT INVESTMENT CLIMATE INVESTMENTS INVESTORS IRAQ KNOWLEDGE LANGUAGE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY LATIN AMERICA LEARNING LITERATURE MALAYSIA MARKETS PACIFIC REGION PAKISTAN PHILIPPINES PLANNING POLICY PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIVATE INVESTMENT PROGRAMS RATE OF RETURN REGULATORY BURDEN REGULATORY FRAMEWORK RESEARCH RETRAINING RETURNS TO EDUCATION RISKY INVESTMENTS SCIENCE SCIENTISTS SECONDARY EDUCATION SERVICES SKILLS SKILLS TRAINING TAX RATES TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS TECHNOLOGY TERTIARY EDUCATION THAILAND TRAINING TRAINING INSTITUTES TRAINING PROGRAMS UNIVERSITY EDUCATION VALUE VALUES The objective of this report is to explore firm competitiveness, the investment climate, and growth in Malaysia. This report is structured as follows. The first two chapters provide an assessment of the investment climate. The last two chapters examine how productivity enhancing programs, skills and technology, have performed in Malaysia. The diagnosis is based on the survey data as well as on cross-country comparisons. Chapter 1 reports on the investment climate and firm performance in the manufacturing sector. Chapter 2 presents the findings on the investment climate and firm performance in the services sector. Chapter 3 examines skills performance and the contribution of training and education to skills performance. Chapter 4 provides a diagnosis of the technological capability of firms. This report also identifies areas that require further work including carrying out a detailed assessment of key elements of the regulatory environment; and undertaking a larger firm level survey to achieve a better assessment of the services sector as a source of growth. 2012-06-18T18:46:03Z 2012-06-18T18:46:03Z 2005-06 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/06/6437874/malaysia-firm-competitiveness-investment-climate-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8310 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) Economic & Sector Work East Asia and Pacific Asia Malaysia
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topic ACCUMULATION
ADDITION
BANGLADESH
BUSINESS MODELS
BUSINESS SERVICES
CHILE
CHINA
COLLABORATION
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
COMPARATOR COUNTRIES
COMPLETION RATES
CONTENT
DOMESTIC INVESTMENT
EAST ASIA
EDUCATION
EDUCATION POLICIES
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EMERGING
ENGINEERS
ENROLLMENT
ENROLLMENT RATES
ENVIRONMENT
EXPENDITURES
FOREIGN FIRMS
FOREIGN INVESTMENT
FOREIGN OWNERSHIP
FORMAL EDUCATION
GOOD INVESTMENT CLIMATE
INCENTIVES
INDIA
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
INFORMATION
INVESTMENT
INVESTMENT CLIMATE
INVESTMENTS
INVESTORS
IRAQ
KNOWLEDGE
LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
LATIN AMERICA
LEARNING
LITERATURE
MALAYSIA
MARKETS
PACIFIC REGION
PAKISTAN
PHILIPPINES
PLANNING
POLICY
PRIMARY EDUCATION
PRIVATE INVESTMENT
PROGRAMS
RATE OF RETURN
REGULATORY BURDEN
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
RESEARCH
RETRAINING
RETURNS TO EDUCATION
RISKY INVESTMENTS
SCIENCE
SCIENTISTS
SECONDARY EDUCATION
SERVICES
SKILLS
SKILLS TRAINING
TAX RATES
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
TERTIARY EDUCATION
THAILAND
TRAINING
TRAINING INSTITUTES
TRAINING PROGRAMS
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
VALUE
VALUES
spellingShingle ACCUMULATION
ADDITION
BANGLADESH
BUSINESS MODELS
BUSINESS SERVICES
CHILE
CHINA
COLLABORATION
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
COMPARATOR COUNTRIES
COMPLETION RATES
CONTENT
DOMESTIC INVESTMENT
EAST ASIA
EDUCATION
EDUCATION POLICIES
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EMERGING
ENGINEERS
ENROLLMENT
ENROLLMENT RATES
ENVIRONMENT
EXPENDITURES
FOREIGN FIRMS
FOREIGN INVESTMENT
FOREIGN OWNERSHIP
FORMAL EDUCATION
GOOD INVESTMENT CLIMATE
INCENTIVES
INDIA
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
INFORMATION
INVESTMENT
INVESTMENT CLIMATE
INVESTMENTS
INVESTORS
IRAQ
KNOWLEDGE
LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
LATIN AMERICA
LEARNING
LITERATURE
MALAYSIA
MARKETS
PACIFIC REGION
PAKISTAN
PHILIPPINES
PLANNING
POLICY
PRIMARY EDUCATION
PRIVATE INVESTMENT
PROGRAMS
RATE OF RETURN
REGULATORY BURDEN
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
RESEARCH
RETRAINING
RETURNS TO EDUCATION
RISKY INVESTMENTS
SCIENCE
SCIENTISTS
SECONDARY EDUCATION
SERVICES
SKILLS
SKILLS TRAINING
TAX RATES
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
TERTIARY EDUCATION
THAILAND
TRAINING
TRAINING INSTITUTES
TRAINING PROGRAMS
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
VALUE
VALUES
World Bank
Malaysia : Firm Competitiveness, Investment Climate and Growth
geographic_facet East Asia and Pacific
Asia
Malaysia
description The objective of this report is to explore firm competitiveness, the investment climate, and growth in Malaysia. This report is structured as follows. The first two chapters provide an assessment of the investment climate. The last two chapters examine how productivity enhancing programs, skills and technology, have performed in Malaysia. The diagnosis is based on the survey data as well as on cross-country comparisons. Chapter 1 reports on the investment climate and firm performance in the manufacturing sector. Chapter 2 presents the findings on the investment climate and firm performance in the services sector. Chapter 3 examines skills performance and the contribution of training and education to skills performance. Chapter 4 provides a diagnosis of the technological capability of firms. This report also identifies areas that require further work including carrying out a detailed assessment of key elements of the regulatory environment; and undertaking a larger firm level survey to achieve a better assessment of the services sector as a source of growth.
format Economic & Sector Work :: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)
author World Bank
author_facet World Bank
author_sort World Bank
title Malaysia : Firm Competitiveness, Investment Climate and Growth
title_short Malaysia : Firm Competitiveness, Investment Climate and Growth
title_full Malaysia : Firm Competitiveness, Investment Climate and Growth
title_fullStr Malaysia : Firm Competitiveness, Investment Climate and Growth
title_full_unstemmed Malaysia : Firm Competitiveness, Investment Climate and Growth
title_sort malaysia : firm competitiveness, investment climate and growth
publisher Washington, DC
publishDate 2012
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/06/6437874/malaysia-firm-competitiveness-investment-climate-growth
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8310
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