To improve and bolster macroeconomic surveillance capacities of its members, under the Technical Assistance Program, the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) has hosted a number of secondees from its members through the Secondment Program.
Technological change and the relentless pace of automation offer significant opportunities for productivity growth and improved efficiency, but they also bring related risks of increased worker displacement and the challenge of upskilling labor.
Headquartered in Singapore, ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) is the regional surveillance unit of the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization (CMIM)
The U.S. economy maintained its trajectory of slightly above-trend growth in the second quarter of 2018.
Last month, I was honored to talk with students and professors at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok about sustaining macroeconomic and financial stability in East Asia and the role of the regional financial safety net.
The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) just released its flagship report, the ASEAN+3 Regional Economic Outlook (AREO) 2018, in three local languages: Chinese, Lao, and Myanmar. This is part of AMRO’s commitment and efforts to make its publications more relevant and accessible to a larger group of audience in member economies.
With China’s economy growing and economic restructuring further proceeding, China’s economic linkages with ASEAN countries have been rising, with potential spillover effects through different channels.
The OECD-AMRO-ADB/ADBI-ERIA Asian Regional Roundtable convenes leading experts from Asian countries and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to discuss the issues at the fore of recent economic developments in the region.
Global financial conditions continue to tighten as the U.S. Federal Reserve remains on its interest rate hike path as the economy is expected to show stronger growth in the second quarter of 2018.
In the past four decades, China has undertaken major reforms, which have led to rapid growth and a strong leadership position in the international economic environment, yet several challenges remain to be tackled to ensure sustainability of the outcomes.
