Economic recovery has proved elusive in Asia, thanks to the West's pandemic mismanagement and vaccine inequality. The Fed's impending tapering will add to the woes.

ON Friday, Jay Powell suggested that the US central bank had met one of the two goals it had sought to achieve before reducing its monthly $120-billion asset purchase program.

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