{"id":94191,"date":"2018-07-18T09:47:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T02:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/economic-gap-between-singapore-malaysia-shrinking\/"},"modified":"2018-07-19T01:04:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T18:04:17","slug":"economic-gap-between-singapore-malaysia-shrinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/economic-gap-between-singapore-malaysia-shrinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic gap between Singapore, Malaysia shrinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAfter trailing for three consecutive years, Malaysia is finally catching up with its neighbour to regain its lead over Singapore\u2019s economy, reported Bloomberg.<br \/>\nBased on World Bank data, Malaysia\u2019s gross domestic product stood at $314.5 billion last year, down $9.4 billion from Singapore\u2019s $323.9 billion.<br \/>\nThe deficit is, however, expected to shrink given the bright forecasts for Malaysia\u2019s economy.<br \/>\nMedian estimates of economists surveyed by Bloomberg showed that Malaysia\u2019s economy will expand by around 5.5 percent this year compared to the 3.1 percent increase expected for Singapore.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSenior Content Producer, Christopher Chitty, edited this story&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : proppertyguru.com.sg\/Property Market&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyguru.com.sg\/property-management-news\/2018\/7\/173311\/economic-gap-between-singapore-malaysia-shrinking\" target=\"_blank\">Economic gap between Singapore, Malaysia shrinking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; After trailing for three consecutive years, Malaysia is finally catching up with its neighbour to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-ovd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":111209,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/singapore-and-malaysia-extend-rts-link-deadline-by-another-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":94191,"position":0},"title":"Singapore and Malaysia extend RTS Link deadline by another month","date":"September 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r During the suspension, Malaysia will decide if it wants to continue with the project as it is. 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