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News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 31/01/2024
» Lenders in the world's two most populous nations are having very different problems with monetary and fiscal taps. In China, creditors are drowning in cheap central bank cash, but loan demand is muted. In India, banks are in the middle of their fastest expansion in a decade, but they're parched for liquidity.
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 20/02/2019
» Japan has aged; Singapore is ageing. Japan's workforce is shrinking; Singapore's has plateaued. Japan's homogeneous society has struggled with immigration; Singapore's island culture has been welcoming of foreigners, though increasingly less so.
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 31/12/2018
» In the first half of 2019, a billion Asians will elect the next leaders of the region's two largest democracies. Half -- 400 million in India, and 79 million in Indonesia -- are from the millennial generation, born roughly between 1982 and 2001. Many will cast ballots for the first time. Although the threat of sectarian hatred looms large over both the Indian and Indonesian elections, economics will still take centre stage.
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 27/11/2018
» Liquidity is getting tight in Asia.
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 18/05/2018
» Mahathir Mohamad blamed everyone except himself and his policies for his country's entanglement in the 1997 Asian crisis. It appears two decades haven't been enough to mellow the Malaysian leader.