THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) trimmed its 2022 growth forecast for developing Asia on Wednesday as "increasing" price pressures after Russia's invasion of Ukraine threaten a recovery from Omicron surges.

Inflation across the vast region stretching from the Cook Islands in the Pacific to Kazakhstan in Central Asia was expected to gather pace as countries bounced back from the pandemic, and energy and food costs rose, it said.

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