{"id":10021,"date":"2012-04-10T11:38:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T03:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=10021"},"modified":"2012-04-11T10:59:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T02:59:56","slug":"2531-pemandu-and-its-real-significance-to-private-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=10021","title":{"rendered":"[2531] PEMANDU and its real significance to private investment"},"content":{"rendered":"

PEMANDU claims “confidence from the ETP saw private investment hit RM94 billion and RM131 billion worth of GNI generated in 2011.”<\/p>\n

A bold claim.<\/p>\n

Let us see the trend of private investment in the last 11 years.<\/p>\n

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Do you see anything special about 2010 and 2011?<\/p>\n

What I see is only a reversion to mean. What I see is that there is something in the economy that causes that. That something is bigger than PEMANDU.<\/p>\n

Note also that in 2009, there was a severe recession. What that means is that there was a temporary disruption, and the subsequent recovery was just a reversion to mean (i.e. delayed investment planned before the recession, or just typical investment that happens as the economy goes along that requires no further incentive), not because of PEMANDU.<\/p>\n

Yet PEMANDU claims that it is the cause.<\/p>\n

You know when PEMANDU can make that claims of theirs? When those points are significantly above the line. That will probably happen in 2012 or 2013 with the construction of the MRT. Until then, no.<\/p>\n

The figures for private investment can be verified by consulting the Bank Negara’s Monthly Statistical Bulletin<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PEMANDU claims “confidence from the ETP saw private investment hit RM94 billion and RM131 billion worth of GNI generated in 2011.” A bold claim. Let us see the trend of private investment in the last 11 years. Do you see anything special about 2010 and 2011? What I see is only a reversion to mean. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[974,1334],"class_list":["post-10021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-investment","tag-pemandu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10021"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10025,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions\/10025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}