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Prospects for South-east Asia to end-2020

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PROSPECTS H2 2020

This is helping to insulate them from immediate political pressures relating to the pandemic crisis, but their hopes for spurring long-term economic recovery depend greatly on…

Fed hike will hit South-east Asian liquidity and debt

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SOUTH-EAST ASIA

Implications of a US rates hike for South-east Asian economies.

Prospects for fossil fuels to end-2016

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PROSPECTS H2 2016

Prospects for fossil fuels to end-2016.

Debt woes will push Laos even closer to China

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LAOS

It is relying on China -- a fellow one party, Marxist-Leninist state -- to help ease its woes. Meanwhile, the ruling Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) is preparing for its…

Philippines budget will help state and business

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PHILIPPINES

The budget was submitted on August 15 and is President Rodrigo Duterte's first. It is mildly expansive, focusing on the new administration's priorities of infrastructure, law and…

Philippines will prioritise infrastructure development

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PHILIPPINES

Last month, the Senate passed a Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) bill. Both houses of Congress have approved a PHP4.5tn (USD93.4bn) budget for 2021.

Malaysian budget failure could see leadership change

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MALAYSIA

Najib denied that Malaysia faced an economic crisis akin to that of 1997-98. The budget revision reaffirmed the government's commitment to the Goods and Services Tax (GST), to be…

Prospects for the global economy in 2017

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PROSPECTS 2017

Prospects for the global economy in 2017.

Laos is at growing risk of sovereign debt default

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LAOS

According to a debt sustainability analysis published by the IMF in May, Laos is in debt distress. Years of rapid growth in borrowing to fund infrastructure development…

Vietnam's latest SOE reform push will see some success

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VIETNAM

Vietnamese public debt levels and membership conditions attached to the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade scheme are necessitating this intensification.