M'sia GDP forecast to grow amid debt concerns
A new debt threat in the form of 1MDB, which recently recorded a loss of RM665m, may be emerging
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Kuala Lumpur
WHILE prospects for Malaysia's economic growth this year and the next remain strong, concerns about its stubbornly high government and household debt levels continue to cast a pall over its performance.
On Monday, at least two economic research houses predicted that the country's real gross domestic product (GDP) would record between 5.8 per cent and 6 per cent in 2014 from 4.7 per cent last year and remain slightly over 5 per cent in 2015.
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