Determinants of national savings in Malaysia / Noorra Ibrahim and Nur Shazreena Zakaria

Saving is an important indicator of economic development, where it indicates the finances for further action towards the development and other economic growth. The purpose of this study is to identify the determinants of national savings in Malaysia. The problem statement regarding this research is...

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Main Authors: Ibrahim, Noorra, Zakaria, Nur Shazreena
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business and Management 2016
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26820/1/PPb_NOORRA%20IBRAHIM%20BM%20M%2016_5.pdf
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description Saving is an important indicator of economic development, where it indicates the finances for further action towards the development and other economic growth. The purpose of this study is to identify the determinants of national savings in Malaysia. The problem statement regarding this research is on the slow economic growth and also downturn of the investment sector. There are several variables that have been selected as the potential variables that could be the determinants of national savings; namely inflation rate, government expenditure, money supply (M2), age dependency ratio and per capita income. The method used in this study is using time series data, and run in E-views program which includes normality test, regressions and diagnostic tests. This study indicates significant relationship to national savings in single linear regression for variables namely; inflation rate, money supply and per capita income. While for multiple regressions, the results indicate that inflation rate, government expenditure, age dependency ratio and per capita income have significant impact to national savings.
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spelling uitm.eprints-68202020-04-02T02:51:45Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26820/ Determinants of national savings in Malaysia / Noorra Ibrahim and Nur Shazreena Zakaria Ibrahim, Noorra Zakaria, Nur Shazreena HC Economic History and Conditions Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product Saving is an important indicator of economic development, where it indicates the finances for further action towards the development and other economic growth. The purpose of this study is to identify the determinants of national savings in Malaysia. The problem statement regarding this research is on the slow economic growth and also downturn of the investment sector. There are several variables that have been selected as the potential variables that could be the determinants of national savings; namely inflation rate, government expenditure, money supply (M2), age dependency ratio and per capita income. The method used in this study is using time series data, and run in E-views program which includes normality test, regressions and diagnostic tests. This study indicates significant relationship to national savings in single linear regression for variables namely; inflation rate, money supply and per capita income. While for multiple regressions, the results indicate that inflation rate, government expenditure, age dependency ratio and per capita income have significant impact to national savings. Faculty of Business and Management 2016 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26820/1/PPb_NOORRA%20IBRAHIM%20BM%20M%2016_5.pdf Determinants of national savings in Malaysia / Noorra Ibrahim and Nur Shazreena Zakaria. (2016) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/26820.pdf> (Unpublished)
spellingShingle HC Economic History and Conditions
Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product
Ibrahim, Noorra
Zakaria, Nur Shazreena
Determinants of national savings in Malaysia / Noorra Ibrahim and Nur Shazreena Zakaria
title Determinants of national savings in Malaysia / Noorra Ibrahim and Nur Shazreena Zakaria
title_full Determinants of national savings in Malaysia / Noorra Ibrahim and Nur Shazreena Zakaria
title_fullStr Determinants of national savings in Malaysia / Noorra Ibrahim and Nur Shazreena Zakaria
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of national savings in Malaysia / Noorra Ibrahim and Nur Shazreena Zakaria
title_short Determinants of national savings in Malaysia / Noorra Ibrahim and Nur Shazreena Zakaria
title_sort determinants of national savings in malaysia noorra ibrahim and nur shazreena zakaria
topic HC Economic History and Conditions
Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product
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