Asia Regional Integration Center

The savior becomes the enemy. Central banks are most upset when they are accused that the low interest rates environment they engineered before the global financial crisis was one of the causes of the crisis.

When the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint was adopted at the 13th ASEAN Summit in November 2007, many experts couldn’t believe their eyes:  creating a unified market in which goods, services...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has achieved many firsts since its economic transformation in the late 1970s.

Over the past decade, there has been a rapid expansion of mobile money (m-money) networks in developing countries.

The need for more effective trade facilitation was on the front burner for the recently concluded World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Meeting in Bali.

At the end of 2011, the Republic of Korea became 1 of only 9 nations in the world whose total trade volumes exceeded $1 trillion.

Now that the gavel has come down in Bali, WTO negotiators and DG Azevedo deserve a round of applause for accomplishing a herculean task – generating consensus among 160 different member states.

Two weeks after Typhoon Yolanda slammed into The Philippines, relief efforts have finally begun to reach the 10 million affected people.

Even as regional integration initiatives continue to progress at warp speed globally, Central Asia’s progress has been halting.

The food-retail sector in many developing countries has been transformed by the liberalization of retail foreign direct investment in the 1990s.