Blog posts tagged by tag: Asia

• What are the prospects for Emerging Economies in 2017?

  Emerging markets started 2016 on a weak note, with concerns over falling commodity prices and China’s slowing economy weighing on economic outlook. However, as the year progressed, various factors have led to emerging-market strength and economic performance was better than initially expected.

  After expanding 4.0% in 2015, emerging economies grew by an estimated 3.9% last year, according to FocusEconomics’ Consensus Forecast. Economic growth was supported in 2016 by improving commodity prices and a broadly stable U.S. dollar. China’s economy proved more robust than initially feared and the recovery now looks to be back on track in Brazil and Russia.

  But what’s in store for emerging markets this year? Will growth pick up in 2017?

  

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  Tags: Asia, Eastern Europe, Infographic, MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa

• What to expect in Asia for 2017

  

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• Global growth to edge up in 2017

  Global growth is likely to strengthen this year but uncertainty over geopolitical issues across the globe, elections in various European countries, Brexit negotiations and Donald Trump as President of the United States, pose risks to growth. Have a look at what is expected for the developed economies & the emerging markets in 2017.

  

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  Tags: Asia, Eastern Europe, Economic Growth (GDP), Infographic, Latin America, Major Economies

• How will emerging markets perform in 2017?

  After a difficult 2015, the emerging markets have fortunately not decelerated as initially feared this year. Economic growth has been supported in 2016 by improving commodity prices and a broadly stable U.S. dollar. China’s economy has proved more robust than initially feared and the recovery now looks to be back on track in Brazil and Russia.

  FocusEconomics’ Consensus Forecast sees emerging economies as a whole growing 3.9% this year, after expanding 4.0% in 2015. But what is in store for emerging markets in 2017?

  Have a look at our latest Consensus Forecasts and find out what our panel of analysts says about the outlook for the key emerging markets next year.

  

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  Tags: Asia, Eastern Europe, Infographic, Latin America, MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa

• Asia: Unremarkable growth & unfulfilled promises?

  Is Asia’s economy stabilizing? Will Asia ever fulfill its promise of being the driving engine for global growth? Will China get back to the booming growth of a few years ago or has the last year been a sign of the beginning of the end? Will India usurp China as the darling of the Asia-Pacific economy? These are some of the questions on the tips of tongues of many, and we try to answer those questions and more in our progress report on the Asian economy so far in 2016.

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  Tags: Asia, China, Economic Growth (GDP), India, Japan

• The economic impact of a break in U.S.-Philippines ties

  In an unexpected yet not entirely surprising turn of events, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte continued his anti-U.S. rhetoric in late October by declaring that the island country would be “breaking up with America.”

  The U.S. and the Philippines have shared strong relations dating all the way back to the late 19^th Century when the U.S. occupied the Philippines as a colony. The relationship between the two nations has even been described as a “special relationship.”

  Announced on 17 November, the Philippine economy expanded 7.1% in the third quarter of 2016 despite Duterte's antics since taking over in June. The economy is going strong, for now. In this post we take a look at what is at stake for the Philippine economy if Duterte does indeed move to break off relations with their long-time ally and driver of economic growth, the U.S.

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  Tags: Asia, China, USA

• Assessing Vietnam's economy: key growth drivers and challenges

  As many of the world's largest emerging economies were faltering earlier this year, namely China, Russia, and Brazil, Vietnam appeared to be one of the emerging market standouts. Since then, however, the Vietnamese economy has shifted into a lower gear as adverse weather conditions damaged a large share of agricultural output, which accounts for almost 20% of GDP. Following disappointing first and second quarter GDP readings, analysts now project Vietnam expanding 6.1% this year, which is substantially lower than the near 7% growth that was expected earlier in year. Despite the disappointing year thus far for Vietnam, FocusEconomics expects steady growth in the manufacturing and construction sectors to offset the impact of the lower agricultural yield and help the economy recover in the second half of the year. We recently sat down with our Vietnam expert economist Jean-Philippe Pourcelot to chat about how he views Vietnam's economic outlook, the key factors that will affect the country's economic growth in 2016 and how reforms could help Vietnam's government to improve FDI and foster a more business-friendly environment overall.

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  Tags: Asia, Economic Growth (GDP), Investment, Vietnam

• Which 15 countries will lead in growth in 2016? [Consensus Forecasts]

  These economies are forecast to be the best performers in 2016 according to our poll of economists

  

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  Tags: Africa, Asia, Economic Growth (GDP), Infographic

• How will emerging markets perform in 2016?

  Find out in the latest Consensus Forecasts from our network of world-leading economists

  

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  Tags: Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Economic Growth (GDP), Emerging Markets, Latin America, MENA

• How do the freshly-released IMF GDP growth forecasts compare to the FocusEconomics Consensus Forecast

  The IMF has just released its biannual World Economic Outlook. Sharp downgrades were made to its growth forecasts for emerging economies, especially Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa and Russia. See how the IMF 2015 GDP growth forecasts compare to the latest consensus forecasts from the FocusEconomics’ network of the world’s leading economists.

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  Tags: Africa, Asia, Consensus Forecast, Economic Growth (GDP), Euro Area, IMF, USA

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