KUALA LUMPUR: South-East Asia is set for another year of low inflation, generating difficult choices for the region’s central banks.
S&P Global Ratings sees inflation remaining below central bank targets in most cases in 2020, according to Shaun Roache, S&P’s chief APAC economist in Singapore. Policy makers may soon have to think about using tools other than interest rates to achieve their policy goals, he said.
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