Macroeconomic factors influencing economic growth in Malaysia / Aish Azahraa Kharudin

Economic growth is defined as an increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of an economy's goods and services over time. Statisticians often use the percent rate of rising in the real gross domestic product, or real GDP, to measure such growth. Foreign direct investment, ex...

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Main Author: Kharudin, Aish Azahraa
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Language:English
Published: 2022
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spelling my-uitm-ir.986062024-09-25T09:38:31Z Macroeconomic factors influencing economic growth in Malaysia / Aish Azahraa Kharudin 2022-02 Kharudin, Aish Azahraa Economic growth is defined as an increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of an economy's goods and services over time. Statisticians often use the percent rate of rising in the real gross domestic product, or real GDP, to measure such growth. Foreign direct investment, export, labour, and market capitalization are the tools that are being used to study the relationship with the dependent variable. To eliminate the distorting influence of inflation on the prices of products produced, growth is frequently assessed in real terms inflation-adjusted terms. This study aims to investigate what is the macroeconomic factors influencing economic growth in Malaysia and the data from The World Bank and Department of Statistics Malaysia Official Portal that cover the period from 1999 - 2020. This research used the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression method to determine the significance of the independent variables that are foreign direct investment (FDI), export, labour, and market capitalization that used real gross domestic product (GDP) as the dependent variable. Foreign direct investment, export, and labour have a significant relationship with real gross domestic product. Meanwhile, market capitalization has an insignificant relationship. Keywords: Economic Growth, Real GDP, FDI, Export, Labour, Market Capitalization 2022-02 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/98606/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/98606/1/98606.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Johor Faculty of Business and Management Zainal Abidin, Rabiatul Alawiyah Mohd Yusoff, Yuslizawati
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advisor Zainal Abidin, Rabiatul Alawiyah
Mohd Yusoff, Yuslizawati
description Economic growth is defined as an increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of an economy's goods and services over time. Statisticians often use the percent rate of rising in the real gross domestic product, or real GDP, to measure such growth. Foreign direct investment, export, labour, and market capitalization are the tools that are being used to study the relationship with the dependent variable. To eliminate the distorting influence of inflation on the prices of products produced, growth is frequently assessed in real terms inflation-adjusted terms. This study aims to investigate what is the macroeconomic factors influencing economic growth in Malaysia and the data from The World Bank and Department of Statistics Malaysia Official Portal that cover the period from 1999 - 2020. This research used the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression method to determine the significance of the independent variables that are foreign direct investment (FDI), export, labour, and market capitalization that used real gross domestic product (GDP) as the dependent variable. Foreign direct investment, export, and labour have a significant relationship with real gross domestic product. Meanwhile, market capitalization has an insignificant relationship. Keywords: Economic Growth, Real GDP, FDI, Export, Labour, Market Capitalization
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Macroeconomic factors influencing economic growth in Malaysia / Aish Azahraa Kharudin
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title Macroeconomic factors influencing economic growth in Malaysia / Aish Azahraa Kharudin
title_short Macroeconomic factors influencing economic growth in Malaysia / Aish Azahraa Kharudin
title_full Macroeconomic factors influencing economic growth in Malaysia / Aish Azahraa Kharudin
title_fullStr Macroeconomic factors influencing economic growth in Malaysia / Aish Azahraa Kharudin
title_full_unstemmed Macroeconomic factors influencing economic growth in Malaysia / Aish Azahraa Kharudin
title_sort macroeconomic factors influencing economic growth in malaysia / aish azahraa kharudin
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publishDate 2022
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