1. INTRODUCTION The term "inflation" originally referred to an increase in the amount of money in circulation. Most economists today use the term "inflation" to refer to a rise in the price level. Rising in price and increase in money supply is two different meanings. The increases of money supply can also being called as monetary inflation while rising in price as price inflation. Economists generally agree that in the long run, inflation is caused by increases in the money supply. However,
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machine, gold, antiques) | * Shares, bonds, certificate of deposit ,unit trust, commodity, derivative instruments | Savings * Form of fixed investment where principal amount and terminal amount is known. ADVANTAGES | DISADVANTAGES | * Provide security * Earn interest on savings * High liquidity | * Earn low income * Hard to maintain the savings because too easy to withdraw | Unit Trusts * An investment institutions that was set up to raise funds from small investors
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Business and Society, Vol. 11 No. 2, 2010, 35 - 50 THE EFFECTS OF MACROECONOMIC EVILS ON PROPERTY AND VIOLENT CRIMES IN MALAYSIA Chor Foon Tang♣ University of Malaya ABSTRACT The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of macroeconomic evils – unemployment and inflation on different categories of crime rates – property and violent crimes in Malaysia via the multivariate Johansen-Juselius and Granger causality techniques. This study used annual data from 1970 to 2006.
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IMF Country Report No. 15/58 MALAYSIA March 2015 2014 ARTICLE IV CONSULTATION—STAFF REPORT; PRESS RELEASE; AND STATEMENT BY THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR MALAYSIA Under Article IV of the IMF’s Articles of Agreement, the IMF holds bilateral discussions with members, usually every year. In the context of the 2014 Article IV consultation with Malaysia, the following documents have been released and are included in this package: The Staff Report prepared by a staff team of the IMF for
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promotes the replacement of foreign imports with domestic production. By implementing this policy, Malaysia attempts to reduce its foreign dependency through the local production of industrialised products until they reach a level of development when they are able to compete in the global market (Wikipedia 2013). According to Lee (2005), this type of industrial policy accompanied by tariff protection, import restrictions and sometimes government procurement favouring locally produced products is targeted
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1a) Derivatives are an important financial instruments that play significant role in today’s financial markets. It offers various types of risk protection and allow innovative investment strategies. A derivative is so called derivative because its value is derived from another financial security. According to Oxford dictionary, derivative is defined as something derived or obtained from another, coming from a source; not original. In financial jargon, a derivative security is referred to a financial
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policies, public spending initiatives and people’s participation is emphasised. Globalisation has been growing in the south but unless gradual it can negatively affect the economy. Globalisation has several advantages like migration of labour and its protection leading to flow of financial and technical resources to developing countries and outsourcing of certain low skill activities from developed countries to developing nations, adoption of technology to match the needs of developing countries. Insufficient
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Singapore – Country Analysis Vineet Khattar; Group Work 9/29/2012 Contents Country Background: .......................................................................................................................... 3 Cultural Aspects of Singapore: ............................................................................................................ 3 Political context..............................................................................................................
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incurred at the previous stage is always deductible by the businesses at the next in the supply chain. GST consider as a broad based consumption tax, which includes all sectors of the economy. In Malaysia the GST have been establish in a very clear manner, for example all goods and services made in Malaysia including imports supply will imposed GST. Goods and services which are categorized under zero rated supply and exempted supply will not imposed GST. This is considering as a systematic taxation
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ANALYSIS OF MALAYSIA Get trend and forecast of real GDP growth rate of Malaysia. Get trend of consumption expenditure in percentage of GDP in Malaysia. Research and development factors of Malaysia. Technological factors of Malaysia. Get trend of growth of population rate in Malaysia. Get trend of unemployment rate in Malaysia. Get trend of savings and consumption as well as investment and expenditure in percentage in GDP of Malaysia. BENEFITS OF PESTEL ANALYSIS IN MALAYSIA Political
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