Economist, Centennial Asia Advisors

Nicholas Chia

Centennial Asia Advisors deliver timely and accurate economic and political analysis to investors, focused on anticipating key turning points that affect the client’s interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Clients include public agencies and central banks, as well as fund managers and investment banks. The company draws strength from its flexibility to tailor products to fit client’s specific interests. It provides detailed macro-economic forecasts, scenario analysis and timely assessments of how specific major economic and political developments may affect a client’s areas of interest. At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way.

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Centennial Asia Advisors

At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way. With over 30 years experience covering Asia’s political economy, you can be sure our conclusions and analyses are based on the unadulterated facts. Through years of fine-tuning our research methodologies, we deliver a quality of macroeconomic analysis few other houses can match.

Centennial Asia Advisors is an independent research and advisory firm that works with governments, multilateral institutions, financial firms and leading MNCs.

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<li>Compared to India, which may have achieved herd immunity by accident rather than by design as caseloads have tumbled of late following the abrupt re-opening after a strict lockdown in March 2020, Indonesia’s experiment with loose mobility curbs at the onset of the pandemic may actually prolong the ongoing economic malaise.</li>
<li>More fiscal policy support is forthcoming, but growing <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/usd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22821:1" rel="noopener">USD (USD CURNCY)</a> strength amid growing prospects for the USD1.9tr-stimulus package in the US will force BI to remain cautious in February's monetary policy meeting. </li>
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Compared to India, which may have achieved herd immunity by accident rather than by design as caseloads have tumbled of late following the abrupt re-opening after a strict lockdown in March 2020, Indonesia’s experiment with loose mobility curbs at the onset of the pandemic may actually prolong the ongoing economic malaise.
More fiscal policy support is forthcoming, but growing USD (USD CURNCY) strength amid growing prospects for the USD1.9tr-stimulus package in the US will force BI to remain cautious in February's monetary policy meeting. 


Indonesia: Loose Mobility Curbs Fail to Spruce Up The Economy