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Miguel Chanco

Chief Emerging Asia Economist 

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Miguel Chanco produces Pantheon’s Emerging Asia service, having covered several parts of the region for over 15 years. He was previously the Lead Analyst for ASEAN at the Economist Intelligence Unit. Prior to that role, Miguel focused on India and frontier markets in South Asia for Capital Economics and Fitch Solutions (previously BMI Research).


Recent key calls include:

H2 2025 - Forecasted accurately the resilience and continued acceleration in Taiwanese GDP growth in the face of higher US tariffs and related uncertainties. The final Q3 print came in at 8.2%, a touch below our top-of-the-range 8.4% forecast and miles above the initial 6.3% consensus, which would have implied a sharp slowdown from Q2’s 8.0%.

April 2025 - Correctly flagged the out-performance of EM Asia equities over China post-“Liberation Day”. This run is still ongoing as of early-2026, with the ratio of the MSCI EM Asia ex-China Index over the MSCI China Index currently up about 40% from its low in mid-March 2025.

2024/25 - Ahead of the curve in predicting the severity of India’s cyclical growth slowdown to just 5% growth in 2024, and in forecasting the depth of the 2025 headline inflation slump. Annual average inflation fell to a record low of 2.2% last year.

2024/25 - Forecasted in late-2024 that BI and the BSP’s terminal rate in 2025 would be 4.75%; the previously more hawkish consensus adopted our once-extremely-dovish views on both fronts through 2025. The end-2025 BI and BSP benchmark rates were 4.75% and 4.50%, respectively.

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