MANILA - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) updated its 2010 growth forecasts for 45 economies in Developing Asia, which spans the Pacific to Central Asia, with growth now seen at 7.9%, up from an earlier forecast of 7.5%.

Forecasts for leading Southeast Asian economies were increased from those in the ADB's Asian Development Outlook in April. The country-specific forecasts were in the Asian Economic Monitor, which was released on Tuesday and covered the Emerging East Asian economies.

The report is available on the ADB's website: http://www.adb.org

Following are the ABD's revised growth forecasts for 2010.

2010 GDP GROWTH (percent per year)
-- ADB forecasts --
July (revised) April (original)

 Source: ADB

NOTES:  

DEVELOPING ASIA covers the 44 developing member countries of the ADB and Brunei, an unclassified regional member.

EMERGING EAST ASIA comprises East and Southeast Asian economies except Mongolia.
EAST ASIA: China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan  

SOUTHEAST ASIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand (the ASEAN-5) plus Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam

SOUTH ASIA: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka  

CENTRAL ASIA: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan  

PACIFIC: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu