INTERNATIONAL investment consultants Morgan Stanley is maintaining Malaysia and Indonesia's growth forecast for this year at 4.8% and 4.5%, respectively, but has marginally downgraded Thailand's by 0.3 percentage points to 5.7%.
In a report, Tsunami Impact on Southeast Asia, focusing on the three economies and released yesterday, it said the Malaysian and Indonesian economies were relatively unaffected by what was surely the greatest human catastrophe in living memory, which had claimed at least 144,000 lives.