Malaysia's GDP growth bucks global trend ...

Msia's fourth entertain 2012 GDP isfastest quarterly expansion given 2010, says Reuters
6.4 per cent. we was tempted to add "blame Umno" to a heading of this post but that would be unkind, antagonistic even. There's no flog in politicizing good headlines but similar to it or not domestic commentators will hail the nice send-off for 2012 [4Q2012 National Accounts, Economics Malaysia, twenty Feb] as a harbinger of good headlines for a statute BN coalition led by Umno as a general elections draw closer ... and another feather in a top of Prime Minister Najib Razak

But could a numbers have been manipulated? we mean, a government - er, Umno - does that all a time, right? According to this economist who has a column in a Malaysian Insider, a headlines portal sometimes accused as an anti-Najib, no, a data were not manipulated. Some of a numbers in a final entertain GDP inform are for him "worrying" [Quick reaction to Malaysia's RGDP expansion for a fourth quarter: Irony and non-celebration, the_earthinc, twenty Feb] but, unfortunately, not for a reasons those blame-Umno-for-everything group would wish to hear.


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