Boosting productivity in Malaysia

Hidekatsu Asadai ; Stewart Nixoni ; Vincent Koen iOECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

关键词: competition;    innovation;    public sector;    regulatory reform;    productivity;    structural reform;    education;    SMEs;    skills;    performance review;    trade;    regional integration;    insolvency;   

DOI  :  https://doi.org/10.1787/e8985a5b-en

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: OECD iLibrary

【 摘 要 】

Productivity growth is essential to providing sustainable increases in living standards. Malaysia has reached a development stage where growth needs to be driven more by productivity gains than the sheer accumulation of capital and labour inputs. The 11th Malaysia Plan (2016-20) sets an ambitious labour productivity growth target of 3.7% per year, well above the 2% average growth recorded from 2011 to 2015. Co-ordinated structural reforms will be necessary to achieve the productivity improvements needed to attain high-income country status. Areas where reforms would deliver the greatest boost to productivity include increasing the quality of education and skills training, spurring innovation, adopting information technology more widely, fostering a well-functioning competition policy framework, improving the functioning of the labour market and the regulatory framework for small and medium-sized enterprises, fostering regional integration and raising public sector productivity.