Malaysia: 2025 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report
IMF Staff Country Reports, March 3, 2025
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- Published: March 3, 2025
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229003339.002
Macroeconomic performance and outlook
- Malaysia’s economic performance improved significantly in 2024.
- Disinflation is taking hold and external pressures have eased.
- The favorable economic conditions provide a window of opportunity to:
- build macroeconomic policy buffers, and
- accelerate structural reforms.
- Risks to growth are tilted to the downside amid an uncertain global outlook.
- Risks to the inflation outlook are tilted to the upside, including from:
- global commodity price shocks, and
- potential wage pressures.
Financial sector assessment
- Malaysia’s financial sector remains sound.
- Banks’ capital and liquidity positions are robust.
- Current assessments indicate that:
- Credit growth, corporate and household balance sheets, and real-estate markets do not pose systemic risks at this juncture.
Structural reforms and social protection
- Timely implementation of the authorities’ ambitious structural reform agenda is essential for enhancing productivity and inclusive growth.
- Given the need to cushion the negative impacts of fiscal reforms on the poor and vulnerable, staff welcomes progress on the Pangkalan Data Utama digital registry, which can help strengthen social safety nets and public service delivery.
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- Publication date: March 3, 2025
- Pages: 90
- Volume: 2025
- Issue: 057
- Series: Country Report No. 2025/057
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229003339.002
- Stock No: 1MYSEA2025001
- ISBN: 9798229003339
- ISSN: 1934-7685
Source: Malaysia: 2025 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report
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