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Asia Faces Cost of Living Crisis on War, Covid Woes – Nikkei

As Asian currencies weaken against the dollar and central banks push rates up, the region faces a cost of living crisis


Indian worker load a truck with goods at a whole sale market in Chennai on June 29, 2017. India is bracing for upheaval as it storms ahead with its most ambitious reform in decades -- transforming the world's fastest growing major economy into a single market for the first time. The long-awaited goods and services tax (GST) rolls out July 1 even as businesses complain they are ill-prepared for the massive changes about to ripple through India's unwieldy, $2 trillion economy. ARUN SANKAR / AFP
As Asians struggle to make ends meet, leaders due for reelection over the next year could face their wrath. Photo: Reuters

 

Costs were already rising before Russia invaded Ukraine. Now, Asia’s businesses and households are being squeezed even harder, Nikkei Asia reported.

With Asian currencies weakening against the dollar and central banks pushing rates up, the region—the world’s consumption growth engine—faces a cost of living crisis. As Asians struggle to make ends meet, leaders due for reelection over the next year could face their wrath.

 

Read the full report: Nikkei Asia

 

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.