Factors that influenced national saving behaviour in Malaysia / Siti Nur Diyana Nadira Ali

Malaysia is one of the developing countries in Asia. Economic stability helps Malaysia in making decision or organized their savings as it usually used as an indicator of country's overall strength and wellness. Unfortunately, National savings performance in Malaysia still indicates low level of saving rate compared to other developed country such as China. Savings provide the most important economic relationship between historical, current and future performance in a country. Sufficient percentage of national savings is regards as basics condition for achieving targets in the investment and growth rates. Keeping in the view of importance and role of national savings in macroeconomic stability suggested that government should improve the level of national savings for sustainable and debit free economy by considering the significant variables from experimental exploration of this study. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the gap of selected factors that will be influenced national savings behaviour in Malaysia. Gross national savings is chosen as dependent variables to study either all independent variables will relate to this Dependent variable. Independent variables that used in this paper study are CPI, export, real per capita income, government consumption and also annual growth rate of GDP. This study only will be focused on Malaysia country for 32 periods starting from year 1986 until 2017. The findings from this study will show that whether all the independent variables will positively and or negatively related to the dependent variables after go through data analysing.