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Adequate infrastructure has long been viewed as an important factor in economic development. Based on regressions covering 76 advanced and emerging market economies, this paper estimates the impact of infrastructure and investment on income distribution. It finds that better infrastructure, both...
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This paper leverages the IMF’s Financial Access Survey (FAS) database to construct a new composite index of financial … composite index uses factor analysis to derive a weighting methodology whose absence has been the most persistent of the … criticisms of previous indices. Countries are then ranked based on the new composite index, providing an additional analytical …
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development—three low-income countries (Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique), and three emerging market countries (Malaysia, the …
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This report is an assessment of the CPSS-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMI) in Malaysia. The … and securities. The payment and security systems are elaborated along with the roles of Bursa Malaysia Securities Clearing …, Bursa Malaysia Depo, and the Bursa Malaysia Derivative Clearing mechanism. The Executive Board comments that Malaysia shows …
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background on the structure of energy production and trade in Malaysia, and presents results from empirical analysis of the oil …
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Malaysia. This assessment was conducted by the International Monetary fund (IMF) and the World Bank. The Securities Commission … Malaysia has developed its supervisory network. The rules of the governing bodies such as issuers, auditors, collective …
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This report is an assessment of the state of compliance with the Basel Core Principles (BCPs) in Malaysia. Bank Negara … Malaysia (BNM) employs a well-developed risk-focused regulatory and supervisory system, consisting of a hands-on and …
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This technical note on Monetary Liquidity Frameworks on Malaysia’s inflation analyzes that it has returned to a more stable path, after some wider fluctuations before and during the global financial crisis. On the liability side, Malaysian banks’ liquidity is based largely on...
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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...
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This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that Malaysia’s well-diversified economy continued to perform well in 2014. Growth accelerated to 5.9 percent, aided by robust domestic private demand and a recovery in exports. Lower energy costs helped contain inflation to 3.1 percent despite...
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