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The objective of this report is to explore firm competitiveness, the investment climate, and growth in Malaysia. This … chapters examine how productivity enhancing programs, skills and technology, have performed in Malaysia. The diagnosis is based …
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"Taking price changes from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model of world trade, the authors use a small open economy computable general equilibrium comparative static model of the Russian economy to assess the impact of global free trade and a successful completion of the Doha Agenda...
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While Malaysia's economy has had great success, it also faces several challenges including limited services trade. This … that Malaysia's development strategy needs to pivot to better capture new trade patterns. This will need to address some of … the main constraints facing the development of Malaysia's services sector. First, is low labor productivity. Secondly, is …
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important role in supporting trade in digital services. The Malaysia digital economy report produced by the World Bank in 2018 … examined three interrelated issues that are closely aligned with Malaysia's own goal of becoming an e-commerce hub for the … enhanced to contribute to Malaysia's competitiveness and integration into the global marketplace. The paper is structured as …
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Malaysia's higher education sector expanded rapidly in the late 1990s, with the number of institutions peaking in 2001 … the establishment of branches of international campuses in Malaysia, the country has become a net receiver of foreign … students. Enhanced trade in the higher education sector, and the expansion of the sector, bodes well for Malaysia's next phase …
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"This paper explores the linkage between income growth rates and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. So far the evidence is rather mixed, as no robust relationship between FDI and income growth has been established. The authors argue that countries need a sound business environment in the...
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