KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 ― Malaysia expects to record a slightly higher Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth this year from 4.2 per cent achieved last year, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said today.

"We expect a slightly higher figure this year, and for it (growth) to rise in 2018,” he said.

The government had forecast that the economy would grow between four and five per cent in 2017.

These figures showed that the Malaysian economy was growing more than double the rates the International Monetary Fund had predicted for advanced economies over the same time period, he said in a keynote address at the Global Transformation Forum here today. ― Bernama