Malaysia GDP (Q1)

While today’s figures show that the new government inherits an economy in decent health, the scrapping of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and campaign pledges to review Chinese investment have made the outlook much more uncertain. For now, we are sticking with our growth forecast of 5.5% for 2018 and 5.0% for 2019.

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