Asia Regional Integration Center
Tracking Asian Integration
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- 9Nov2022
Your Questions Answered: What is the Trade Finance Gap and Why Does it Matter?
Steven Beck, the Head of ADB’s Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program, answers questions about the trade finance gap in Asia and around the world, based on ADB’s Trade Finance Gaps, Growth, and Jobs Survey.
4Aug2022Reshore or Diversify? How to Reorganize the World’s Fragile Supply Chains
The time is right to rejigger global supply chains. One school of thought is to diversify those further away from places prone to disruptions due to economic, health, climate change and geopolitical issues.
28Jul2022Aid for Trade Needs to Catch Up with the Modern World
These regional trade deals, and digital economy agreements, have created a host of new negotiating, regulatory and policy challenges for developing countries.
13May2022Transparency Will Make Global Trade and Supply Chains More Resilient, Socially Responsible
There is already a distinct line that divides time before the COVID-19 pandemic and two years after it started. It is the line where COVID exposed our fragility...
9Mar2022The Implications for Asia of US Monetary Policy
The fight against the pandemic has left a large imprint on the US Federal Reserve’s balance sheet. Since the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020, the US Fed has purchased a wide range of assets and pumped liquidity into the financial system to cushion the impact of the pandemic and fiscal stimulus on interest rates.
24Feb2022Asian Trade Has Rebounded Strongly, Yet Uncertainties Persist
Trade in services, particularly non-digital services, and movement of people is still sluggish due to the ongoing pandemic. The emergence of new COVID-19 variants has hit trade particularly hard.