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Financing childhood growth
News, Published on 18/07/2023
» In 2020, chronic undernutrition stunted the growth of nearly a quarter of the world's children under five years old. Being too short for one's age, as a result of chronic undernutrition, can cause irreversible physical and cognitive damage and increases the risk of dying from common infections.
How to prevent developing country debt crises
Oped, Published on 05/08/2022
» Since the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, sovereign-debt crises have become a regular occurrence for emerging and developing economies. Today, Sri Lanka needs a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after defaulting on its foreign debt in May, and a growing number of low-income countries are facing similar challenges.
Tonic needed as inflation is here to stay
Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 27/01/2022
» Inflation is, and will be, the number one economic issue of 2022. All countries are facing rapid rises in consumer prices which is threatening not only their economic recovery from the Covid outbreak but also the stability of many governments. The US consumer price index (CPI) hit a 39-year high at 7% in December 2021, prompting Goldman Sachs to predict that the Federal Reserve Board might raise interest rates four times this year.
Hurt the junta
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/05/2021
» Re: "Myanmar: From diplomacy to force", (OpEd, April 30).
Investors warm to a 'Blue Wave'
News, Published on 15/10/2020
» Just about the only market consensus all year on next month's US election was that it would be volatile around the vote -- but even that's turning upside down three weeks before polling.
Could the baht strengthen even further?
News, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 04/07/2019
» Just the other morning before I woke up, I dreamed that I was in line at a bank waiting to change my Thai baht into US dollars for an overseas trip. Once I got to the teller, she told me that today's baht-to-dollar exchange rate was 25.8 and asked how many dollars I wanted. I asked her to repeat the exchange rate again and she confirmed the rate of 25.8 baht to the dollar. I told myself that this must be a dream, and I woke up.
Fed rate hikes bring relief in Asia
News, Published on 26/04/2017
» After almost a decade of unconventional monetary policy, a modest tightening cycle in the US is finally under way. The recent decision to hike the benchmark US federal-fund rate by 25 basis points, and the signal for two more rate hikes this year, followed by monetary tightening in China, has created market expectations that the long cycle of low and falling interest rates in Asia could be over.
Strong side effects of ultra-low interest rates
News, Sutapa Amornvivat, Published on 17/08/2016
» Worldwide growth numbers in the past few years have been disappointing. As more uncertainties arise in the global economy, central bankers are taking ever more drastic measures in desperation to save growth. In July, one month after the Brexit result, the Bank of England cut its interest rates to a historic low to stave off potential impacts from the fallout. Central banks around the world too have taken their policy rates to unprecedentedly low levels.