Boston, MA -- (SBWire) -- 12/03/2015 --The 2016 federal budget reinforces the government's commitment to infrastructure development and supports ongoing developments plans such as the 11 th Malaysia Plan and the Economic Transformation Programme. We note that the weakening residential and non-residential buildings segments will be a drag on overall growth.
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We maintain our positive outlook for Malaysia's construction sector, and forecast real growth of 10.6% and 7.6% in 2015 and 2016 respectively.
The federal budget for 2016, which was announced in November 2015, underscores the government's commitment to infrastructure development, and public projects will continue to drive construction activity.
Our forecast reflects a slowdown going into 2016 as we believe the weakening residential and non-residential buildings segments will weigh on growth.
Risk/Reward Index
Malaysia maintains its Risk/Reward Index score of 58.0 out of 100 in Q116, coming ninth out of a total of 17 countries.
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Heightened political uncertainty owing to corruption allegations against Prime Minister Najib Razak could lead to some downside to its Country Risks score.
A larger than expected slowdown in the domestic economy, owing to external headwinds, could lead to a lower Country Rewards score.
The Malaysia Infrastructure Report features BMI Research's market assessment and forecasts covering public procurement and spending on all major infrastructure and construction projects, including transportation and logistics by land, sea and air; power plants and utilities, and commercial construction and property development. The report analyses the impact of regulatory changes and the macroeconomic outlook and features competitive intelligence on contractors and suppliers.
BMI's Malaysia Infrastructure Report provides industry professionals and strategists, sector analysts, investors, trade associations and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on the Malaysian infrastructure and construction industry.
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BMI Industry View
Summary of BMI?s key industry forecasts, views and trend analysis covering infrastructure and construction, regulatory changes, major investments and projects and significant national and multinational company developments. These are broken down into construction (social, commercial and residential), transport (roads, railways, ports, airports, etc), and energy & utilities (powerplants, pipelines and so on).
Industry SWOT Analysis
Analysis of the major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats within the infrastructure and construction sectors and within the broader political, economic and business environment.
BMI Industry Forecasts
Historic data series (up to 2012) and forecasts to end-2024 for all key industry indicators, supported by explicit assumptions, plus analysis of key developments in the market and risks to the main forecasts. Indicators include:
Construction: Industry value (USDbn); contribution to GDP (%); total capital investment (USDbn); real growth (%).
Construction industry real growth forecasts (%) and industry value (USDbn) forecasts for industry sectors are split into Residential and Non-residential and Infrastructure sectors. Where the data is available for particular countries the infrastructure is further broken down into indicators for the transport subsectors of roads, railways, airports and ports and the energy and utilities sub-sectors of power plants and transmission grids, oil & gas pipelines and water infrastructure. This dataset is unique to the market.
The reports also include analysis of latest projects across the infrastructure sectors (transport, utilities, commercial construction).
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