AS the Covid-19 crisis derails economies worldwide, many of the newly poor will come from South-East Asia, dealing a huge setback to a region that had been prospering from a surging middle class.
The job losses are pausing the outsized boom South-East Asia has experienced in recent years, with economies possibly taking years to fully recover.
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