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Economy / North Korea
BMI View: North Korea's submission of 18,000 pages of documents detailing its nuclear programme to the US should relieve external pressure on Kim Jong Il's regime in the near term. However, it is as yet unclear whether the documents cover Pyongyang's covert uranium enrichment programme, and we continue to have doubts that the regime will ever give up its nuclear weapons.
2008-05-12Economy / South Korea
Tensions on the Korean peninsula have risen in the past month as Pyongyang tested short-range missiles and expelled South Koreans from the inter-Korean business zone in Kaesong. We...
2008-04-11Economy
Vice president-elect Vincent Siew travelled to the Chinese island of Hainan on April 11 to attend a business forum, in what will be an initial gauge for the prospects of a rapprochement...
2008-04-11Economy / India
BMI View: For faster expansion, the economy needs a much more benign monetary policy environment than it currently has, and in the end this boils down to resolving the core problem of weak infrastructure. Without a major overhaul in the country's infrastructure development programme - which can now only be feasibly introduced by the next government - authorities will be forced...
2008-05-12Economy / India
The first stage of the Karnataka state elections began on May 10 in what has become a key gauge for the next national elections, due before May 2009. The election campaign was hard-fought,...
2008-05-12Economy / Sri Lanka
BMI View: Despite the economy's resilience in 2007, we envisage a deceleration of real GDP growth to 6.0% in 2008, because of the escalating civil war, high inflation, and the slowdown...
2008-04-14Economy / Vietnam
Vietnam and North Korea are to boost bilateral co-operation in trade, investment, sports and culture after a visit by Deputy Foreign Minister Vu Dung visited Pyongyang on May 7-9. The visit was a follow-up to that of Communist Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh to Pyongyang in November last year and we foresee increased interaction going forward as North Korea attempts to follow...
2008-05-12Economy / Thailand
BMI View: Thailand's economy expanded by a faster-than-expected 4.8% in 2007, due in large part to the country's resilient export sector. Thai merchandise exports rose a solid 18.1%...
2008-04-14Economy / Vietnam
BMI View: We revised down our real GDP growth forecast for 2008 from 8.2% to 7.0% in January on anticipation of weaker exports to the US and that continued monetary tightening...
2008-04-11Economy / Philippines
Economic activity unexpectedly accelerated in Q407 from the previous quarter, as higher levels of government spending and lower interest rates boosted domestic demand. Fourth quarter GDP growth surprised on the upside at 7.4% y-o-y, increasing from the previous quarter's 6.6% expansion, taking the full-year figure for 2007 to 7.3% - a 31-year high. This robust growth momentum...
2008-04-11Economy / Indonesia
A parliamentary commission has approved the appointment of Chief Economic Minister Boediono as the new governor of the central bank, ending fears that a monetary policy void would...
2008-04-11Economy / Indonesia
Indonesia's economy expanded by 6.32% in 2007, marginally higher than our own 6.20% GDP growth forecast and it has, in our view, reached its medium-term peak. The country managed...
2008-04-11
