Economy
India
The monthly growth rate of India eight core industries staged a respectable rebound in March following a 2.4% year-on-year (y-o-y) contraction in February. Indeed, growth shot up by...
2013-05-03Pakistan
In line with our expectations, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) kept its policy rates unchanged in its April monetary policy meeting, despite headline consumer price inflation (CPI)...
2013-05-02Sri Lanka
Consumer price inflation (CPI) figures since March have shown a pronounced softening, broadly in line with our view for disinflation this year. The recently-released figures showed...
2013-05-02Bangladesh
Headline consumer price inflation (CPI) came in at 7.7% year-on-year (y-o-y) in March, down slightly from the 7.9% rate registered in February. The past eight months have seen the headline...
2013-05-02Pakistan
Manufacturing activity continues to improve in Pakistan, which is very much in line with our view for an improvement in real GDP growth this fiscal year (FY2012/13 [July-June]). The...
2013-04-05Sri Lanka
Headline consumer price inflation (CPI) plunged in March, in line with our broad view for disinflation this year and our expectation that inflation would start to head further south...
2013-04-05Bangladesh
Contrary to our earlier expectations that real GDP growth would stabilise this fiscal year (FY2012/13 [July-June]) from the slowdown witnessed in FY2011/12, economic data so far this...
2013-04-05India
From our perspective, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Indian economy is entering the early stages of a cyclical growth bounce on the back of the ongoing easing by the central...
2013-04-05




