Malaysia: Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation

March 14, 2014

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Malaysia: Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed November 23, 2024

Summary

The IMF staff report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation focuses on Malaysia’s economic developments and policies. The IMF report discusses that continued growth in domestic demand, especially investment, and a pickup in external demand should help maintain robust growth going forward despite the fiscal tightening. Amidst concerns about Malaysia’s public finances and sharp narrowing of the external surplus in spring–summer of 2013, authorities have taken timely action to secure fiscal sustainability and assure markets. It suggests that authorities’ decisions in 2013 are close to a fiscal policy breakthrough aiming to contain federal debt and related fiscal risks.

Subject: Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal policy, Inflation, Prices, Revenue administration, Taxes, Value-added tax

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, CR, Data standard, Exchange arrangement, Fiscal consolidation, Global, Household debt, Inflation, ISCR, Market distortion, Policy, Policy flexibility, Policy issue, Policy stance, Public finance, Regulation, Value-added tax

Publication Details

Pages:

93
Volume:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2014/080
Stock No:

1MYSEA2014001
ISBN:

9781475557404
ISSN:

1934-7685

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