PhDAuthors: Othman, Azura (2015)
Over the past three decades, the Malaysian economy has been experiencing economic growth, but at the same time inundated by a deterioration of overall fiscal balance and consequently a rise in national debt. As a country that has faced persistent fiscal deficits for the last 16 years, Malaysia now needs more fiscal space and a plausible fiscal sustainability plan that would place its economy on a trajectory to a higher growth path. Its budget deficit in 2013 stood at 4% of GDP while federal government debt stands at 53% of GDP ...