Asian Economy

Developing economies in Asia have mostly regained ground lost during the pandemic but are seeing their recoveries stall as productivity lags, the World Bank said in a report released Friday. The report forecasts that growth in the region including China will pick up pace this year after the world's No. 2 economy relaxed pandemic restrictions on travel and other activities. But recoveries elsewhere in the region, excluding China, will moderate as pressures of inflation and growing household debt slow consumer spending, it said. Across the Asia-Pacific, economies are expected to grow at a 5.1% annual pace this year, up from 3.5% in 2022, the report said. But not including China, growth is expected to slip to 4.9% in 2023 after a rebound from the worst of the pandemic of 5.8% in 2022, it said. Major Asian economies like Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam will see their recoveries slow and meanwhile face risks from weakening global growth, spillover from the war in Ukraine a

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Growth in China, the largest economy in Asia, is expected to slow in 2022 to 3% against a 3.3% expansion predicted in a September report

Expectations that China would gradually loosen its zero-Covid policy and open up its economy also lifted sentiment

The war in Ukraine has affected the Asian economy broadly in terms of trade and financial market uncertainties and inflation, a top IMF official said on Tuesday, warning that going forward the risk of fragmentation was quite serious in the Asia Pacific region. If you look at the (Ukrainian) war itself, there are multiple channels through which it has affected Asia. One, of course, is the falling external demand. Asia doesn't have many strong trade links with Russia. But Asian trade links with Europe are pretty high. To the extent that Europe is affected significantly by the war in Ukraine, it affects external demand for countries in Asia, Krishna Srinivasan, Director Asia and Pacific Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) told PTI in an interview. The second area is on food and commodity prices, which have increased significantly since the war, he said. They had already gone up during the pandemic but had been intensified in the context of the war. That has implications for .

The Asian Development Bank cut its growth forecast for China and also lowered its outlook for developing Asia amid rising interest rates, a prolonged war in Ukraine and Beijing's Covid Zero policy

Purchasing managers indexes for Taiwan fell to 42.7 from 44.6 in July -- its lowest since May 2020 -- while South Korea's fell to 47.6 from 49.8 -- its lowest since July 2020

Analysts at Morgan Stanley expect India's gross domestic product (GDP) growth to average 7 per cent in 2022-23. The Indian economy, they said, is set for its best run in over a decade.

Japan's trade deficit for the first half of this year totaled nearly 8 trillion yen because of surging oil prices and a sinking yen, brought on partly by the war in Ukraine, and weaker global demand

Inflation in Asia Pacific economies is expected to subside earlier as commodity prices retreat, but country-specific factors could lead to different inflation outcomes, said Moody's Analytics

Inflation as measured by the CPI index stood at 7.04 in May 2022, higher than the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) comfort zone of 2 - 6 per cent

The contraction likely marks the beginning of a painful and long recession for the country

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin vowed to help Asian nations push back against Chinese "bullying," describing the efforts as necessary to prevent a repeat of the Ukraine crisis in the Pacific

Food inflation, which accounts for nearly half the consumer price index (CPI) basket, reached a multi-month high in March

The Covid-19 pandemic severed the tourism lifeline of the Indian Ocean nation, already short of revenue in the wake of steep tax cuts by the government.

The long-standing structural weakness of Pakistan's economy, aggravated by the global challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine-Russia war, is scaring away the investors in the country