{"id":1045,"date":"2007-01-08T18:08:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T10:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2010-01-18T11:37:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T00:37:23","slug":"1041-of-malaysian-government-spending-and-private-investment-in-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"[1041] Of Malaysian government spending and private investment in 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the Business Times and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btimes.com.my\/Current_News\/BT\/Monday\/Corporate\/BT602564.txt\/Article\/\" target=\"_blank\">I saw this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2007, Malaysia&#8217;s GDP is estimated to grow at more than 5.0 per cent. The two key drivers of demand will be higher government spending and an increase in private investments, particularly with the implementation of the 9th Malaysia Plan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quiz for students of macroeconomics: with <em>ceteris paribus<\/em>, what will happen to private investment when the government increases its spending?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: See <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Crowding_out_%28economics%29&amp;oldid=95860869\" target=\"_blank\">crowding out<\/a> at Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly four months ago, the Malaysian Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister announced that his ministry planned to combat shortage with \u2014 drum roll please \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=884\">price ceiling<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the Business Times and I saw this: In 2007, Malaysia&#8217;s GDP is estimated to grow at more than 5.0 per cent. The two key drivers of demand will be higher government spending and an increase in private investments, particularly with the implementation of the 9th Malaysia Plan. Quiz for students of macroeconomics: [&hellip;]<\/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":[43,974],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-government-spending","tag-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","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=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6073,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}