{"id":53903,"date":"2019-12-09T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53903"},"modified":"2019-12-09T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T04:44:31","slug":"world-bank-eases-msian-gdp-forecast-2020-slightly-to-4-5-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53903","title":{"rendered":"World Bank eases Msian GDP forecast 2020 slightly to 4.5 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; World Bank Group has revised Malaysia&#8217;s gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast slightly down to 4.5 per cent for 2020 as compared with\u00a0this year&#8217;s forecast of 4.6 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its macroeconomics, trade and investment lead economist Richard Record said the slightly trimmed GDP forecast was largely due to weaker-than-anticipated investment and export growth in the third quarter of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Private consumption is projected to expand at a still robust rate of 6.5 per cent next year, underpinned by stable labour market conditions, relatively benign inflation, and continued support from government measures,&#8221; he told reporters at the launch of the 21st edition of Malaysia Economic Monitor &#8211; \u2018Making Ends Meet\u2019&nbsp;here, today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; World Bank Group has revised Malaysia&#8217;s gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast slightly down to 4.5 per cent for 2020 as compared with\u00a0this year&#8217;s forecast of 4.6 per cent. Its macroeconomics, trade and investment lead economist Richard Record said the slightly trimmed GDP forecast was largely due to weaker-than-anticipated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":8612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53903"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}