The determinants of economic growth in Malaysia / Nur Hamizatul Husna Shaikh Abdul Jamal

This paper is aims to investigate the determinants of economic growth in Malaysia. This study will focus on one country which is Malaysia. The factors that may influence the economic growth in Malaysia will be observe closely. The dependent variable in this study is Malaysia's performance that will be measure by Growth Domestic Product. Five selected independent variable in this study are Consumption Expenditure Rate, Inflation Rate, Export Rate, Gross Domestic Saving Rate and Foreign Direct Investment Rate. The data from Malaysia are pooled for 36 years (1980-2015). The data can be obtained from world bank, IMF sources and other sources. This study used quantitative secondary data which is multiple regression models represented by the ordinary least squares (OLS) as the technique to look the determinants of economic growth in Malaysia. After doing the data analysis for the data collection, the findings for this research are consumption expenditure rate, export rate and foreign direct investment rate have a positive relationship with economic growth in Malaysia while Inflation Rate and Gross Domestic Saving have negative relationship with economic growth in Malaysia