Thursday, October 16, 2008

World Economic Outlook database (IMF)

Here can

Download entire World Economic Outlook database October 2008

The downloads below consist of two files. The "By Countries" file contains series data for all countries, and the "By Country Groups" file contains series data for all country groups (aggregated data).

As many series are either not available or not applicable, there will be empty cells in the dataset. All available data that can be released to the public are incorporated into one of these two files.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2008/02/weodata/download.aspx

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

In 2007 Trade Merchandise: Malaysia ranked as 19th largest exporter & 25th largest importer

Press/520/Rev.117 April 2008WORLD TRADE 2007, PROSPECTS FOR 2008WTO: developing, transition economies cushion trade slowdown

World trade growth slid to 5.5% last year from 8.5% in 2006 and may grow even more slowly in 2008 — at about 4.5% — as sharp economic deceleration in key developed countries is only partly offset by continuing strong growth in emerging economies, according to World Trade Organization economists.

World Merchandise Trade: In 2007, Malaysia rank as 19th largest exporter and 25th largest importer.

For details please clik. http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres08_e/pr520_e.htm

Global Competitiveness Index 2008 - 2009

For information. Excerpt from www.btimes.com.my. The full ranking is as per attach and for full report please click http://www.weforum.org/documents/GCR0809/index.html
Malaysia among top 6 Asian economies

Published: 2008/10/09
MALAYSIA ranks 21st in overall performance out of 134 countries in the Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009 released by World Economic Forum (WEF) in Geneva, Switzerland yesterday.

Malaysia is among the top six Asian economies after Singapore (5th), Japan (9th), Hong Kong (11th), Korea (13th) and Taiwan (17th). The country is ahead of China (30th), Thailand (34th), Brunei (39th), India (50th), Indonesia (55th), Vietnam (70th) and the Philippines (71st).

It is also ahead of Ireland, New Zealand, Luxembourg and Spain, which ranked between 22nd and 29th. The report features the Global Competitive Index, which captures the microeconomic and macroeconomic foundations of national competitiveness. The top five countries in the index are the US, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and Singapore.