Approved investments vs FDI: Manipulation, or truly a non-issue?


IN the past few years, every time the Statistics Department Malaysia publishes the figures for foreign direct investment (FDI), certain quarters tend to compare the FDI figure against the foreign investment (FI) data captured by the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (Mida).

Allegations tend to follow on how they believe the Mida numbers are fudged to achieve a feel-good factor.

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