KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 — The government remains committed to reducing the deficit with a projection of 3.8 per cent in 2025, said Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 17 — BMI Country Risk & Industry Research (BMI) has retained its forecast for Malaysia’s budget deficit as a share of gross domestic products (GDP) to fall from 4.9 per cent in 2023 to 4.3 per cent in 2024, in line with the government’s fiscal projections.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2 — Research firm BMI has maintained its 2023 forecast for Malaysia’s budget deficit at 4.9 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) from 5.6 per cent in 2022.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 21 — The government is studying the best measures to reduce the budget deficit which will be announced during the full budget presentation in February 2023.

BANGKOK, Sept 27 — Thailand's government plans new borrowing of about 820 billion baht (US$21.64 billion) in the 2023 fiscal year starting October 1, mainly to finance a budget deficit, the finance ministry said on Tuesday, as it tries to bolster economic recovery.

By Mustakim Ramli SHAH ALAM, Nov 27 — The over RM200 million deficit in the 2022 Selangor Budget (#Selangor2022) will not burden the state government, says Menteri Besar. Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari said this is because Selangor has a growing and strong reserve that can be used. “Last year,...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — Maybank Investment Bank has revised its 2021 budget deficit forecast for Malaysia to 6.8 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 6.2 per cent previously.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 — CGS-CIMB Research estimates the RM10 billion Prihatin Supplementary Initiative Package (Kita  Prihatin) will increase the Ministry of Finance's last projected budget deficit by 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP).