News about growth

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 9): Economic Club of Kuala Lumpur (ECKL) chairman Tan Sri Abdul Wahid Omar has welcomed the government’s announcement to move Klang Valley into the second phase of the National Recovery Plan (NRP), pointing out that this move will make the prospects of achieving 4% of gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year clearer.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 11): Singapore’s real estate investment growth doubled to US$4.

PETALING JAYA (Aug 5): Cities are now outperforming national housing markets, with 43 cities registering an annual price growth above 10%, up from just one year ago, according to Knight Frank’s latest report Knight Frank’s Global Residential Cities Index, published in July.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 15): Global growth could add "several percentage points" and see benefits "in the trillions" if advanced economies release their extra vaccines to help developing countries whose reopening has stalled due to lack of vaccines, World Bank president David Malpass said.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 11): The nationwide movement control order (MCO) could take away 0.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 23): Malaysia has been listed among several nations that would each see an economic growth 20% below what they could otherwise expect by 2050 if the increase in global temperatures is held to 2°C.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 24): Malaysia's economic outlook is marked as "at risk", Moody's Analytics said today, as the country's Covid-19-driven Movement Control Order (MCO), which bars interstate travel, spurs expectation of slower economic and business growth.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 4): Malaysia's gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to hover around 5% in 2021 due to the second Movement Control Order (MCO 2.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 30): Rental growth for office and logistics are expected to be encouraging in Asia Pacific (APAC) countries, according to the Asia Pacific Real Estate: Still Good Value in a Changed World report (part two) by Colliers International released on June 29.

TOKYO (April 16): Asia’s economic growth this year will grind to a halt for the first time in 60 years, as the coronavirus crisis takes an “unprecedented” toll on the region’s service sector and major export destinations, the International Monetary Fund said today, according to a Reuters report.