East Asia Growth Sliding to 11-Year Low on China - World Bank
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China's slowdown might drag East Asia's growth to an estimated 11-year low in 2012, the World Bank said the policy makers in Asia's emerging economies have room to provide more fiscal stimulus.
In developing East Asia, excluding countries like India and Japan, a a decline in growth from 8.3% in 2011 to 7.2% is bound to be experienced, based on report given by the Washington based lender, which is lower than the forecast of 7.6% earlier given in May making it the slowest pace since 2001 according to World Bank data.
Meanwhile the International Monetary Fund is set to reduce its global forecast for this year probably tomorrow at an annual meeting in Tokyo, where a slowdown triggered by the sovereign-debt crisis of Europe will be tackled by officials.
Tentatively, Central banks are stepping up world wide effort to protect recovery, with United States expanding monetary easing, the Bank of Korea forecast to cut interest rates this week and the Bank of Japan boosting its asset purchases.
World Bank noted that external demand has further moderated and inflationary pressures receded, there may be space for accommodative policies in most countries, which in case of a major external slowdown, sufficient fiscal space for stimulus will be catered for.
Realistically the later may be more effective in keeping up demand, as policy rates are already low and most East Asia-Pacific countries have relatively abundant liquidity.
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