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Asia in the year of the dragon

Monday 23 January 2012 – by Haruhiko Kuroda / Project Syndicate


Although Asia has little external financial vulnerability, it is not decoupled from the West and European policymakers would do well to remember this when tackling the EU’s sovereign debt crisis, says Haruhiko Kuroda, president of the Asian Development Bank.

This is the year of the “Black Water Dragon,” an astrological cycle that indicates change, but with a measure of calm, sensibility, and prudence.

The people and governments of Asia certainly hope that this proves to be the case, but uncertainties – from within and without the region – are growing rapidly.

Developing Asia has performed relatively well over the past two years. It led the world out of the 2008-2009 “Great Recession,” recording 9 per cent average economic growth in 2010 and solidifying that recovery by laying the basis for a more moderate – and, one hopes, sustainable – pace of economic expansion.

In 2011, despite Europe’s debt struggles and an anemic recovery in the United States, developing Asia’s economies grew at a more restrained but still strong 7.5 per cent average rate.

The biggest economic risk to the region is that Europe hits a financial tripwire and plummets into a deep recession, or that the US recovery stagnates during this election year.

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Volatility has come to define market behavior, and Asian markets are no exception. Investor sentiment seems driven by daily events rather than longer-term trends.

If the eurozone crisis leads to a sovereign default, contagion could spread to the rest of the world.

In the short term, Asia and other emerging economies could be hit hard as finance dries up, choking off trade and investment flows that coursed through European banks – and hitting American banks that need to shore up capital to cover their European exposure.

Any new crisis would thus hurt global trade and Asia’s economic growth.

To read this article in full, please visit our partner site, Project Syndicate, by clicking here.

Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2011. www.project-syndicate.org



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