Asia Expects Continuing Scars From War, Covid

A protracted Ukraine-Russia war will affect the region’s various sectors and jack up commodity prices, economists say

By: Purple Romero

A wide range of economic forecasters are sounding a relatively moderate alarm for Southeast Asia on vital imports and exports from semiconductors to tourism given the possibility of a prolonged Ukraine-Russia war on economies already scarred by the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility of more sustained damage from the failure of China’…