Recently published research from Business Monitor International, "Malaysia Business Forecast Report Q2 2014", is now available at Fast Market Research

Boston, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/21/2014 --The Malaysian economy is likely to expand at an average of 4.2% over the next five years (2014-2018). Although this is by no means spectacular given that growth has averaged 5.0% over the last decade, we note that this is largely due to the rebalancing of the Malaysian economy towards domestic demand. We expect private sector investment to be a major source of growth for the economy, with GFCF as a share of nominal GDP rising steadily from around 25.6% in 2012 to 28.8% by 2017.

We view the newly announced fiscal budget as a major step in getting the government's finances back in order. We forecast Malaysia's budget deficit to narrow from an estimated 4.9% of GDP in 2013 to 1.0% by 2018, with the bulk of the reduction coming from 2015 onwards due to the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST).

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We expect inflationary pressures in 2014 to be kept in check by a host of factors including cooling money supply growth, declining global grain prices, and subdued regional economic growth. Unless, we see a sharp rebound in grain prices over the coming months (not our core view), we believe that food price inflationary pressures will be capped in 2014.

Major Forecast Changes

We have revised our average headline consumer price inflation (CPI) forecast to 2.9% for 2014 (up from 2.5% previously). This is to reflect the one-off impact of the electricity price hike implemented by the government in January.

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