The effect of public debt towards economic growth in Malaysia / Armila Ashyikin Halid

• Main Author: Halid, Armila Ashyikin
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Economics; Credit. Debt. Loans; Investment, capital formation, speculation
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/39306/1/39306.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/39306/

This study will determine the effect of public debt towards economic growth in Malaysia. Other than that this study also examines whether other variable such as domestic debt (DD), external debt (ED), inflation (INF), investment (INV) and real exchange rate (RER) have an impact towards economic growth in Malaysia. The time period of examined is from 1980 until 2015 which is 36 years data observation in total. Based from the result it showed that domestic debt (DD), inflation (INF) and real exchange rate (RER) has negative relationship with economic growth. Meanwhile external debt (ED) and investment (INV) has positive relationship with economic growth in Malaysia. From this study it will showed the effect of public debt towards economic growth in Malaysia.