Bank of Japan Gov. Kuroda walks tightrope with monetary easing
The prospects for Japan’s economy have become ever more uncertain, partly due to the increasingly tense situation in Ukraine.
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China’s CPI stays mostly flat in March
The growth in core CPI, which excludes food and energy prices and is deemed a better gauge of the supply-demand relationship, came in at 1.1% in March, flat with the previous…
Slap down on syndicates hiking food prices during Ramadan: Experts
Industry experts contested that the Bangladeshi government has not taken any authoritarian step to reverse this trend as the businessmen of the country are influencing the…
Soaring cost of living puts Bangladesh’s middle class in a tight spot
Experts have voiced concern over exclusion of middle-income families from the social safety net, saying many of them are joining the ranks of new poor as a result of rising…
Eating out in South Korea more expensive due to rising costs, demand
The Korean Statistical Information Service also predicted that dining out costs are unlikely to drop and will likely to see further increases,
Surging prices nudge Asia’s central bank hawks off sidelines
Some Asian economies, such as South Korea and New Zealand, already commenced their shifts away from pandemic era monetary stimulus last year as surging prices unsettled…
Indonesia braces for high inflation
The authorities launched a wage subsidy for 8.8 million low-income workers, as well as cash aid for 12 million micro, small and medium enterprises and direct cash transfers for…
Bangladesh must not lose focus on macroeconomic stability: ADB
ADB Senior Economist Soon Chan Hong also said that the indirect impact of the Russia-Ukraine war would be high for Bangladesh.
Korea’s top 20% own real estate 251 times more valuable than lowest
A report suggested pandemic-triggered inflation as a key reason behind the widening economic polarization.
Indonesia feels pinch of global oil crisis
These developments mark the winding down of government energy price control policies meant to shield Indonesian consumers from the effects of surging oil prices.