Asia’s diverging growth prospects

China’s Q2 GDP data underline the extent to which Asia’s economic landscape has shifted. We expect growth in China to continue to slow over the next couple of years. For India, the worst of the downturn may already have passed and policymakers’ willingness to embrace reform bodes well for the future. But reforms will take time to have an effect and any turnaround in growth is likely to be gradual. Instead, the region’s brightest prospects are in South East Asia, particularly Indonesia and the Philippines.