{"id":193361,"date":"2025-09-02T05:50:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193361\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T05:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:50:20","slug":"the-threat-of-deflation-stalks-asias-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193361\/","title":{"rendered":"The threat of deflation stalks Asia\u2019s economies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Just as the inflationary heat is rising again in America, much of Asia is feeling a chill. Leave aside the hotspots\u2014Japan and Bangladesh\u2014and the average rate across the continent\u2019s ten biggest economies is a tame 1.3%. Consumer prices have fallen outright in China, the biggest of all, and in Thailand. Other Asian economies, including the Philippines, are not far from deflation. Even in inflation-prone India prices rose by just 1.6% in the year to July, the slowest rate since 2017. In some Asian economies inflation is within central bankers\u2019 target ranges. But in five it is now below these, and even in on-target countries the trend is disinflationary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just as the inflationary heat is rising again in America, much of Asia is feeling a chill. Leave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,14810,2175,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-193361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-finance-economics","11":"tag-tariffs","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115133141794736024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}