The Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia 2016

Economic forecasting is a mug’s game. But here are a few generalizations about issues likely to impact Asian in the coming year.

The year 2016 begins not with a bang but with a whimper, to misquote the poet Eliot. It marks the end of two trends without signalling the beginning of a new one. For Asia as a whole this promises to be another dull but not dis…