Business Environment Rankings

Malaysia's overall business environment can be considered attractive in a regional context, thanks to reasonable performance in most categories. The country has a relatively low level of perceived economic risk, reasonable oil and gas resources, an above-average licensing and regulatory regime and a benign competitive framework. Political risk is seen as being higher than the regional average, with unexciting oil and gas output growth prospects. Government control and direct involvement remains at a high level and, while remaining popular with a variety of IOCs, the country is at risk of lower oil industry foreign direct investment (FDI) as countries such

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