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BANGKOK -- The author of a new World Bank report warned on Tuesday that developing Asia faces the prospect of a "third shock" to follow the trade war and new coronavirus outbreak.
The relentless spread of COVID-19 could devastate economic growth and increase poverty across the region for the first time in a generation, the bank said in a new report on the region's response to the pandemic.