Economy

Bangladesh Bank (BB) faces a tricky dilemma of whether to unwind monetary easing to contain inflation, or keep policy loose in order to help the domestic economy weather an anticipated... 2010-10-05

BMI View: The inflationary impact of devastating floods in August have put the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in a bind. Driven by a spike in food prices, we expect inflation to continue... 2010-10-04

In line with our view, the Pakistan rupee has continued to depreciate against the US dollar, hitting all-time lows of PKR86.18/US$ at the end of September.

Real GDP registered growth of 8.5% y-o-y in Q210, marking the fastest pace of expansion since 2002. Services and industry led the way, increasing by an impressive 8.8% and 9.2%, respectively,... 2010-09-30

While we expect the global economy to slow in the coming months, India's domestic demand should prove reasonably resilient and lead to its economic outperformance. This suggests that... 2010-09-29

India's current monetary tightening cycle has come to an end, in our view. We expect inflationary pressures to ease as food prices fall and see limited threats of a spike in industrial... 2010-09-22

The impact of the widespread flood will be difficult to quantify until further information becomes available. For now, we have bumped up our inflation forecast for Pakistan to 13.5%... 2010-09-03

One of the main factors supporting our relatively bullish 5.8% long-term (2012-2019) economic growth rate projections for Bangladesh is the outlook for population growth. We see population... 2010-09-03

BMI View: Having slowed in each of the preceding five months, Sri Lanka's headline rate of consumer price inflation ticked up to 5.0% y-o-y in August. However, we note that the core... 2010-09-02

Owing largely to a worsening global macroeconomic picture, we have toned down our expectation of further rupee strength over the coming year. Accordingly, we have set our end-FY2010... 2010-09-01