THE NEXUS BETWEEN INFLATION, TRADE, AND FDI WITH ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY IN MALAYSIA
Keywords:
ANS Rate, Sustainable Development, MalaysiaAbstract
The Adjusted Net Saving (ANS) rate indicator was introduced by the World Bank in the early 1990s to
measure the sustainable development path of a country. Since then, the indicator has been widely
recognized for its comprehensive economic sustainability measurement. This paper explored the nexus
between inflation rate, international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) with the economic
sustainability path in Malaysia from 1987 to 2018. We employed the autoregressive distributed lag
(ARDL) model based on the Bounds test approach to identify the connection among the listed variables.
The result findings showed that in the long run, trade and FDI have a significant positive impact on the
ANS rate while the inflation rate, however, presented otherwise. Following the cointegrating short-run
model, the error correction term indicates a highly significant negative form which confirms the correct
speed of adjustment towards the equilibrium. As the Coronavirus pandemic is currently affecting the
global economy, this study further recommends that investment and international trade policies must be
meticulously be reformulated to ensure sustained development in an emerging economy like Malaysia.
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