Chief Economist & Political Strategist, CrossASEAN Research

Prasenjit K. Basu

PK Basu has 34 years experience covering Asia's economies and markets (equities, fixed income and currencies), including 20 years covering the global economy. He was Chief Economist (SE Asia & India) at Credit Suisse First Boston for 5 years, and Chief Asia (x-Jpn) Economist at Daiwa Securities for a similar period. Among other roles, he was global head of research at Maybank Kim Eng, Malaysia equity research head and chief ASEAN economist at Macquarie, ASEAN economist at UBS and the first chief economist at Khazanah Nasional (where he was co-head of research, and led all agri-business initiatives). PK Basu started his career in the Asia Service of WEFA (Wharton Econometrics) in Philadelphia in 1990, rising to be Director of their Asia Service in June 1994. 
PK's book, "Asia Reborn: A continent rises from the ravages of Colonialism and War to a New Dynamism" won the Tata Literature First Book Award (non-fiction) for 2018. It is the first single chronicle of the modern economic and political history of the whole of Asia (from Iraq and Turkey to Korea and Japan, and everything in between), told from an Asian perspective.

Chief Economist & Political Strategist

Pakistan: Troubles for Imran Khan Begin Even Before the Oath-Taking as US Questions the IMF Rescue

Turkey's Crisis Approach To Have Lessons for Pak; Any Capital Control to Lead to Frontier Market Tag

How BoP Crisis In Pakistan Can Help Imran Khan Get Closer To India By Opening Overland Trade Linkage

Pakistan: A Full Blown Crisis Ahead of Elections, Implying a Large IMF or China Rescue Is Needed

Military Intimidation Aimed at Bringing Imran's PTI to Power; It May Work, but Will Fuel Instability

Pakistan Economy: Credit Rating Agencies Turning "Negative"

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The election outcome ensures a relatively stable government -- and so is better than expected.Imran Khan's PTI will still need the support of smaller parties (including militantly Islamist ones) to form the national government, and will not control any other province apart from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. So fractiousness will remain an impediment to effective policy. Despite the temporary respite provided by the IDB, China and Saudi Arabia, Pakistan's negative net foreign asset position will entail the…

The election outcome ensures a relatively stable government -- and so is better than expected.Imran Khan's PTI will still need the support of smaller parties (including militantly Islamist ones) to form the national government, and will not control any other province apart from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. So fractiousness will remain an impediment to effective policy. Despite the temporary respite provided by the IDB, China and Saudi Arabia, Pakistan's negative net foreign asset position will entail the…

Prime Minister-Elect Imran Has His Work Cut Out, Starting with Negotiation of an IMF Loan