Population and economic development in Sarawak, Malaysia

Furuoka, Fumitaka (2014): Population and economic development in Sarawak, Malaysia.

Abstract

This paper chooses a Malaysian state in Borneo Island, Sarawak, as the case study to examine the relationship between population growth and economic development. The findings imply that there is no statistically significant long-run relationship, but a causal relationship between population growth and economic development in Sarawak. In other words, the empirical findings indicate that population can have neither positive nor negative impact on economic development. The findings also indicated that income expansion did cause the population expansion in Sarawak, Malaysia.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Population growth, Economic development, Sarawak, Malaysia
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies > O53 - Asia including Middle East

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