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Asia's developing economies will expand faster than earlier estimated in 2007 and 2008, and are well placed to weather any U.S. slowdown and turmoil in global credit markets, the Asian Development Bank said. Growth in Asia excluding Japan and Australia is predicted to be 8.3 percent this year, beating a March estimate of 7.6 percent, the Manila-based lender said in a report released in Singapore today. The region will expand 8.2 percent in 2008, faster than an earlier forecast of 7.7 percent, according to the ADB, which is funded by governments to promote development in the region. Rising incomes in China and India, the world's two fastest- growing major economies, are boosting consumer and corporate spending. External debt has fallen since 1997 Asian financial crisis while forex exchange reserves have risen sevenfold to $3.6 trillion, and the ADB said the region is better placed to cope with adverse developments.
``Developing Asia's defenses against external shocks are solid and it can weather a slowdown in the U.S.,'' ADB chief economist Ifzal Ali said. ``It has stout financial defenses and some scope for policy adjustment.'' The global credit crisis sparked by the collapse of the U.S. sub-prime-mortgage market shook equity markets valuation around the world, sending benchmark indexes plunging as investors withdrew from riskier investments. “Morgan Stanley Capital International” Asia Pacific Index tumbled 15 % from its July 24 record high to a 7month low on 17 Aug.. It has since rebounded 11 %

Growth Risks

While volatility in credit market is making the outlook for growth more ``hazy,'' the lender said the region's growth will depend on how domestic challenges are met. ``While the jury is still out on the events unfolding in credit markets and the broader global economy, a sharp dive in Asia's economic growth still seems unlikely,'' according to the Asian Development Outlook 2007 Update report.
Still, the region will not be immune to a U.S. recession. Asia's developing countries are almost double as dependent on exports as the rest of the globe, with 60 percent of their trade abroad eventually destined for the U.S., Europe and Japan.
``A steep downturn in the U.S., with knock-on effects in Japan and the euro zone, would mark a significant deterioration in the external environment and would undoubtedly cut into regional growth going into 2008,'' Ali wrote. Any impact would be ``modest and short-lived,'' he said.

U.S. Contagion

A recession in the world's forex institute largest economy would reduce the Asian region's growth rate by as much as 2 percentage points, the ADB said. Global economic expansion might suffer an unassuming slow-down to about 4.75 % should growth in the United States slip below 2% from an average of 2.3 % in the first half, predictor at ‘Morgan Stanley & Co.’ Contagion from a U.S. recession would cut global growth to 3.5 percent or less.
More currency flexibility is needed to help policy makers address forex trading economic imbalances, today's report said. ``Some countries are trying to juggle too many objectives given the instruments at their disposal,'' the ADB said. ``While exchange-rate regimes are certainly more flexible than they once were, there is scope for still-greater flexibility.'' “Robust'' momentum in the economies of China and India is driving Asia's expansion, curbing the impact of any easing of demand for the region's goods.

Inflation Concern

The ADB raised its 2007 forecast for economic growth in China to 11.2 percent from 10 percent estimated six months ago. It increased its prediction for expansion in India to 8.5 percent from 8 percent estimated in March.
Chinese and Indian policy makers will remain alert on inflation pressures, the ADB said. China moves up the interest rates on Sept. 14 for the 5th time ever since from March to curb the greatest increase rate since ‘96 and to cool a rolling stock-market.