GDP vs genuine progress quantification of economic performance in South Korea and Malaysia

Autores/as

  • Mastura Hashim International Islamic University Malaysia
  • Imtiaz Mohammad Sifat International Islamic University Malaysia
  • Azhar Mohamad International Islamic University Malaysia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1075-598X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/ebl.7.4.2018.169-178

Resumen

Malaysia and South Korea, successful graduates of Asian Financial Crisis, employed different paths to recovery via Capital Control and IMF bail-out respectively. This paper tracks recovery trajectories of the two nations via orthodox and emergent growth indicators: GDP and GPI. We report unemployment, open-trade, fixed capital accumulation, and prior crisis to be influential determinants of both metrics, while credit and foreign exchange rate lack significance.

Biografía del autor/a

Azhar Mohamad, International Islamic University Malaysia

Assoc. Prof. Dr Azhar MohamadDepartment of FinanceKulliyyah of Economics and Management SciencesInternational Islamic University Malaysia53100 Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaTel: +603-6196 4752

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Publicado

2018-11-23

Cómo citar

Hashim, M., Mohammad Sifat, I., & Mohamad, A. (2018). GDP vs genuine progress quantification of economic performance in South Korea and Malaysia. Economics and Business Letters, 7(4), 169–178. https://doi.org/10.17811/ebl.7.4.2018.169-178