July 6, 2012
Good News: Malaysia Third for FDI in ASEAN, Fifth in Asia
Malaysia available a third-highest turn of foreign approach investment (FDI) in South East Middle East final year, behind Singapore as well as Indonesia, as well as was fifth-highest in Asia, according to a United Nations Conference upon Trade as well as Development (UNCTAD).
China had a highest turn of FDI during US$ 124 billion (RM391 billion), followed by Hong Kong (US$ 83 billion), Singapore (US$ 64 billion), Indonesia (US$ 19 billion) as well as Malaysia (US$ 12 billion).
Malaysia was additionally a fifth-largest source of FDI in Asia, with outflows reaching US$ fifteen billion, behind South Korea (US$ twenty billion), Singapore (US$ 25 billion), China (US$ 65 billion) as well as Hong Kong (US$ 82 billion).
UNCTAD pronounced in a inform which FDI inflows to a segment as a total had strike a brand new record, taking flight fourteen per cent to US$ 336 billion, or 22 per cent of a tellurian total, compared to only 12 per cent before a tellurian financial crisis.
The group warned, however, which tellurian FDI was losing momentum this year as well as will settle during about US$ 1.6 trillion, before augmenting to US$ 1.8 trillion as well as US$ 1.9 trillion in 2013 as well as 2014, respectively.
"Investor uncertainty upon a course of mercantile events for this duration is still tall with 
UNCTAD's annual survey ! of manag ement team of transnational corporations (TNCs) anticipating which roughly half of respondents have been either neutral or uncertain about a state of a tellurian investment climate in 2012," it said.
The inform additionally pronounced which TNCs were land record money pot estimated during between US$ 4-5 trillion, which have so distant not translated into sustained expansion in investment levels.
The 100 largest TNCs alone were found to be hoarding US$ 1 trillion in cash, which was estimated to be US$ 105 billion higher than a pre-crisis levels.
UNCTAD's inform this year stressed a theme of "new generation investment policies" which included regulating mercantile expansion for tolerable as well as inclusive development.
Minister of International Trade as well as Industry Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed pronounced which Malaysia's investment policies have been aligned with UNCTAD's policy framework for tolerable development.
"We have done great swell in delivering amicable growth as well as mercantile expansion in 2011 underneath a Government Transformation Programme as well as a Economic Transformation Programme," he said.
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