The Asia-Pacific region faced challenges including what he described as "policy adjustment of major developed economies", apparently a reference to the US Federal Reserve's winding down of the vast bond purchase programme it put in place to fight the global financial crisis.
His comments came a day after China, a major driver of global growth, announced that gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 7.3 percent in the third quarter, its slowest pace since the depths of the crisis.
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