--- title: Price Spikes In Asia Mean the World Is Now Facing Inflation description: Food and energy prices are surging in Asia, which appeared to avoid the price hikes gripping the U.S. and parts of Europe until now. canonical: https://time.com/6166404/world-economy-inflation/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-04-13T04:28:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:54:21.426Z article:section: Business og:title: Price Spikes In Asia Mean the World Is Now Facing Inflation og:description: The region appeared to avoid the price hikes gripping the U.S. and parts of Europe until now og:url: https://time.com/6166404/world-economy-inflation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt342d898184258b06/698a30d9e76ad21025639f65/GettyImages-1229289508.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: In this photo illustration, a person is holding and counting og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Price Spikes In Asia Mean the World Is Now Facing Inflation twitter:description: The region appeared to avoid the price hikes gripping the U.S. and parts of Europe until now twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt342d898184258b06/698a30d9e76ad21025639f65/GettyImages-1229289508.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Price Spikes In Asia Mean the Whole World Is Now Dealing With Inflation > Sponsored content. 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Inflation readings across the region — China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and South Korea — recently rose more than forecast, while New Zealand on Wednesday hiked rates by the most in 22 years over price worries. And accelerating manufacturing costs suggest the worst is yet to come. Markets are starting to price in [rising inflation expectations](https://time.com/personal-finance/article/ways-to-combat-inflation/) and more aggressive central bank action across much of Asia. That’s beginning to mirror trends seen in the U.S., where data Tuesday showed consumer prices last month rose by the most since late 1981, piling fresh pressure on the Federal Reserve to respond. Regional government bond yields have risen through this year, led by South Korea, with the emerging Asia total return index down 2.6%, its worst performance since 2013\. That signals an expectation that some central banks will raise interest rates to slow inflation and prop up their currencies as capital leaves the region. The turning point was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which triggered an upheaval in commodities markets. That pushed energy and fuel prices higher and threatened grain supplies to the world’s top consuming region. Rising fertilizer and transport costs are also filtering through to compound record global food prices.  A sign displays fuel prices at a gas station in Gimpo, South Korea, on April 3, 2022\. South Korea has extended a reduction in fuel taxes for another three months through July to rein in inflation. SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Elevated commodities prices are seen fanning inflation in developing Asia by 1 full percentage point to 3.7% this year, the Asian Development Bank said earlier this month. While that’s relatively tame compared to rates in the U.S., it’s forcing policymakers to shift focus and spooking some investors. A net $22.3 billion in investments last month flowed out of emerging Asia, excluding China, according to Australia & New Zealand Banking Group — marking the biggest sell-off since March 2020. India, the world’s second-most populous nation, is feeling the food and energy pinch. At his vegetable stall in a Mumbai suburb, Dnyaneshwar Uttam Sante’s problems could be seen in the plastic bag of mixed vegetables he had just packed for a customer: He was charging 450 rupees, or almost $6, which is about 80% more than a few weeks ago. “I’m helpless,” Sante said, just as a customer chimed in about the “unbelievable” cost of a cooking gas cylinder, which had risen almost 30% to 960 rupees. **Read More:** [_Here’s What Costs More and How to Plan for It_](https://time.com/nextadvisor/in-the-news/rising-inflation-rising-prices-how-to-plan/) The reaction by the Reserve Bank of India is emblematic of Asia’s growing pressures. Governor Shaktikanta Das last week cited a “tectonic shift” in the macroeconomic and inflation outlook since the end of February — basically, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — which “upended the earlier narrative” of calmer price pressures this year. “In the sequence of our priorities, we have now put inflation over growth,” Das said. In China, producer prices gained 8.3% from a year earlier, down from 8.8% in February but still above the median estimate of an 8.1%. Consumer prices excluding fresh food in Japan, the Bank of Japan’s benchmark, rose 0.6% in February from a year earlier, the fastest pace in two years, driven up by energy costs. Central banks in South Korea and Singapore also meet this week, with economists split on prospects for another rate increase in Seoul while those in the city-state of Singapore are expected to tighten settings to combat imported inflation, especially energy. Food poses the biggest inflation risk to Asian central banks despite the region being a net exporter, according to HSBC Holdings Plc. Rolling lockdowns in China to suppress Covid-19 are another potential source of inflation for logistics. What’s more, further consumer price hikes are likely as manufacturers’ input costs continue to climb.  Vendors are seen at a food market in Bangkok, Thailand, March 30, 2022\. Thailand's central bank said Wednesday that the Southeast Asian country's headline inflation will exceed this year's target range on higher energy and food prices Rachen Sageamsak/Xinhua via Getty Images While the correlation between factory prices and consumer costs is influenced by a range of factors, as some companies absorb the charges or as exchange rates soften the blow, analysts at ANZ and Nomura Holdings Inc. see more inflation coming. “The gap between PPI and CPI is currently exceptionally large,” said Krystal Tan, an economist at ANZ, referring to prices paid by producers and consumers. “This suggests to me that there are significant price pressures in the pipeline that will flow into CPI eventually as producers start to pass through more of the higher input costs.” One producer feeling the squeeze is Kenneth Wong, who runs one of the world’s leading manufacturers of bras, with factories in China, Cambodia and Thailand. He has seen input prices jump for the about 20 components needed for the clothing staple such as fabric, foam pads, metal wire and plastic adjusters. And prices are still rising, according to Wong, who heads up Top Form Bras, a Hong Kong-based company founded by his father. While in normal circumstances Wong would quote clients a price for a product that would hold for its life cycle — as long as three years, for example — he’s now updating prices on a rolling basis. “Previously when I was buying things like elastic or thread or buckles, we didn’t even need to think about it,” Wong said. “But now, you really need to manage it.” —_With assistance from Yantoultra Ngui, Suttinee Yuvejwattana, Anuchit Nguyen, Siegfrid Alegado, Andreo Calonzo, Grace Sihombing, Yoshiaki Nohara and Marcus Wong_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6166404/world-economy-inflation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6166404/world-economy-inflation/"},"headline":"Price Spikes In Asia Mean the Whole World Is Now Dealing With Inflation","datePublished":"2022-04-13T04:28:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:54:21.426Z","description":"The region appeared to avoid the price hikes gripping the U.S. and parts of Europe until now","url":"https://time.com/6166404/world-economy-inflation/","keywords":["Economy","wire","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt342d898184258b06/698a30d9e76ad21025639f65/GettyImages-1229289508.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Enda Curran, Michelle Jamrisko and Anup Roy / Bloomberg"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt342d898184258b06/698a30d9e76ad21025639f65/GettyImages-1229289508.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"In this photo illustration, a person is holding and counting","caption":"In this photo illustration, a person is holding and counting","creditText":"Zhang Peng—LightRocket/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/economy/","name":"Economy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6166404/world-economy-inflation/","name":"Price Spikes In Asia Mean the Whole World Is Now Dealing With Inflation"}}]}] ```