An Extra-ordinary East Asia Economic Update

World Bank has release the update;

Economic outlooks are always uncertain, to be sure, but the level of uncertainty about prospects for the world economy just now is extraordinary. That matters in a region as highly globally integrated as East Asia. Forecasts for the US economy have been sliding lower for months but what’s less clear is how deep and protracted the downturn will be – underlying which are uncertainties about how much more widespread and intense the global financial turmoil that began last August will get.

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