Jamaluddin: GDP to surpass 4.5% in 2003

DUBAI: Second Finance Minister Datuk Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis said Malaysia’s economy could surpass this year’s projected 4.5% growth owing to the present upbeat global economic scenario. 

He said the brighter outlook for the world economy in the immediate term as painted by officials of the IMF and World Bank has confirmed the better economic prospect forecast by the 2004 Budget.