Factor influencing agriculture`s contribution to GDP in Malaysia / Fareha Nazwa Watinin

• Main Author: Watinin, Fareha Nazwa
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Economics; Business cycles. Economic fluctuations. Economic indicators; Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/39566/1/39566.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/39566/

This study aims to determine the macroeconomic factor which influence the agriculture’s contribution to GDP in Malaysia. This study employs time series data for 30-year period spanning from 1989 until 2019. It was hypothesized that the percentage contribution of agriculture to GDP is influenced by factors associated with the level of economic development in Malaysia which is the government expenditure on agriculture, the inflation rate and net exports of agriculture. The result of the hypothesis shows that government expenditure to agriculture, inflation rate and net export of agriculture have a positive relationship with the agriculture contribution to GDP