Malaysia: A fork in the road - Economic prospects and business outlook Doing Business With Malaysia Forum - 26 October 2009

1. Malaysia: A fork in the road Economic prospects and business outlook October 2009 Sudhir Vadaketh Associate director Economist Corporate Network [email_address]

2. Stabilisation, recovery next year Source: EIU Growth at market exchange rates Real GDP growth (% change y-on-y)

4. Leading “emerging Asia” Source: EIU Per capita GDP (purchasing power parity to US$)

5. Lagging “Asia’s tigers” Source: EIU Per capita GDP (purchasing power parity to US$)

6. FDI: a sorry story Source: EIU Net foreign direct investment inflows (US$m)

8. Challenges: Education and innovation World Ranking of Asia’s top universities 2008 (ex Japan, Australia) Source: THES – QS World University Rankings 2008 250 University Kebangsaan Malaysia 124 National Taiwan University 230 University of Malaya 113 Fudan University, China 229 Zhejiang University, China 95 KAIST, South Korea 203 Yonsei University, South Korea 77 Nanyang Tech University, Singapore 188 Pohang University, South Korea 56 Tsinghua University, China 174 Indian Institute of Tech, Bombay 50 Seoul National University 166 Chulalongkorn University, Thailand 50 Peking University 154 Indian Institute of Tech, Delhi 42 Chinese University of Hong Kong 144 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 39 Hong Kong Univ of Science & Tech 143 Nanjing University, China 30 National University of Singapore 141 University of Science & Tech of China 26 University of Hong Kong Rank Rank

9. Challenges: Corruption Source: Transparency International Corruption Perception Index 2008 (10 = highly clean, 1 = highly corrupt)

10. Challenges: Integration Singapore