Nowcasting ASEAN+3 Goods Exports: Bridge and Machine Learning Models and Shipping “Big Data”
This paper presents two frameworks for nowcasting export growth across the 14 ASEAN+3 economies.
This paper presents two frameworks for nowcasting export growth across the 14 ASEAN+3 economies.
Using the IMF-University of Oxford University PortWatch spillover simulator to analyze the impact of the Baltimore accident on ASEAN+3 trade, the note shows that immediate, direct repercussions for the ASEAN+3 region are small, as is the impact on its network of supply chains.
Watch the highlights of the ASEAN+3 Regional Economic Outlook 2024 thematic chapter, Navigating Tomorrow.
The ASEAN+3 region remained resilient in a challenging global landscape in 2023.
While the ASEAN+3 region will remain a major driver of global growth in the next decade, it also faces a multitude of structural challenges. Three secular trends—aging, global trade reconfiguration, and rapid technological change—are affecting the region in complex ways that make its long-term growth trajectory less certain.
The trade conflict between the US and China has led to tit-for-tat tariff increases imposed on a significant portion of their respective exports since it started in 2018.
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This note shows that an economy needs to retain more GVC stages to support the development of domestic firms and increase domestic value-added, and that it should move toward more upstream positions in GVCs to capture a larger share of value-added.
China’s manufacturing landscape is undergoing a major transformation, driven by rising wages, more stringent environmental regulations, a wider adoption of digital technology and opportunities in overseas markets.
Growth for ASEAN+3 was better than expected in 2023, supported by a turnaround in exports amid robust domestic demand and stabilizing economic activities in China.