Watch: AMRO’s Doi on Global Value Chains, How Policies Must Safeguard a Sustainable Recovery

In an interview with Bloomberg Markets: Asia, AMRO Director Toshinori Doi discusses how ASEAN+3 remains a prime location for global value chains, and how policies must safeguard a sustainable recovery.

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ASEAN+3 Regional Economic Outlook 2021: Prospects and Challenges

The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) today published its annual flagship report, the ASEAN+3 Regional Economic Outlook (AREO 2021). AMRO staff forecast that the ASEAN+3 region will expand by 6.7 percent this year and 4.9 percent in 2022, after contracting marginally by 0.2 percent in 2020.

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The Amended Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation (CMIM) Comes Into Effect on 31 March 2021

The amended Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation (CMIM) Agreement, which is a regional financing arrangement among the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the ASEAN member states, China, Japan and Korea (ASEAN+3) and the Monetary Authority of Hong Kong, China, came into effect on 31 March 2021.

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