April 17, 2025
By enabling payments in local currencies, the RPC initiative eliminates unnecessary steps, reducing both costs and transaction time.
January 12, 2023
Lao PDR is transforming. The country took a giant step toward becoming a regional transportation hub when the Laos-China Railway became operational on December 3, 2021.
January 11, 2023
Hong Kong’s role in connecting mainland China with the rest of the world has evolved over time. The city has expanded from a key entrepot for trade and investment in the 1990s to becoming an important hub for financial intermediation and mainland capital account opening, earning it the title of super-connector.
December 22, 2022
Hong Kong’s economy is expected to slow in 2022 before accelerating in 2023 after the easing of COVID-19 restrictions and on the back of strong policy support.
December 22, 2022
Following a strong 6.3 percent expansion last year, Hong Kong’s GDP is expected to contract by 2.5 percent in 2022 before rebounding by 4.3 percent in 2023.
February 18, 2022
Hong Kong has been immensely successful over the past four decades in its economic development.
April 7, 2021
The post-pandemic world calls for more globalization, not less. The pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities of global value chains (GVCs), as lockdowns around the world disrupted supply lines across economies.
May 28, 2019
Strengthening regional financial safety nets and ensuring a smooth transition into the new economy are pertinent to the economic stability and well-being of the ASEAN+3 region. This was highlighted across all three outreach events the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) held in Australia.
May 24, 2019
Our previous blog article discussed the key drivers of East Asia’s transformation from the conventional “manufacturing for exports” strategy to a more broad-based “new economy”, and considered some of the region’s efforts to strengthen its capacity and connectivity.
May 23, 2019
East Asia’s growth model is transforming, surely and rapidly.
