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Asia is focusing on ways to address the downturn in the economy of Asain economies.
Asian governments are looking to look at ways to cut down on exports to focus on decreasing poverty in their countries. Demand for Asain products have been hit hard by the global economic downturn which has consumers buyign less products from particular parts of the world, especially Asia. Tens of Millions (about 60 million) are expected to be kept in poverty over teh next two years as jobs are cuts to keep profits up for companies. "Asia's main export markets had experienced a massive contraction in demand since the implosion of the US mortgage market triggered the global banking crisis last year", says ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda. The US economic recession as they call it, has had a ripple effect in many of the worlds largest economies. With global trade, comes the high price of global recession. We are seeing now that a recession that is involved with one large global market will inevitably effect the markets of everyone involved in the trade. Since the markets have seen a decrease in volume as a result of a fall of consumer and invester confidence, this has triggered a fall in the price of currencies of many nations. GDP of Asia was 9% in 2007 and the past year it has been a merely 3.7%. A very sharp decline. Asia focused on education and infrastructure over the past two years.