Malaysia's economic growth can accelerate beyond 2020

The median of forecasts from 14 economists is for annual growth of 5.2 percent in April-June. That would be a dip from January-March's 5.4 percent and make the latest quarter - during which Malaysia surprisingly got a new government - the third in a row of slowing growth.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s economic growth could accelerate beyond 2020 if commodity prices were to pick up on the back of a recovery in global economic growth.

Moody’s Analytics chief Asia-Pacific economist Steven G. Cochrane said Malaysia’s economic growth would likely slow down in the next two years as weak global economic outlook could weigh on commodity prices.