Asia Regional Integration Center

Economic cooperation in ASEAN is entering a new phase. For decades, Southeast Asia pursued integration to achieve growth, competitiveness, trade, and attract foreign direct investment (FDI). Those goals still matter...

With visitors forecast to underpin one in 10 jobs within the decade, a joint approach—not winner-takes-all rivalry—offers not only growth but better protection against outside shocks.

Global value chains helped many Asian economies industrialize, but where they sit in the chain now matters more than whether they’re in it at all..

In an era of shifting supply chains and rising uncertainty, regional trade offers Central Asia a path to resilience, scale, and growth through deeper integration.

The Brunei Darussalam–Indonesia–Malaysia–Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area shows that transport links alone do not drive lasting development. Infrastructure must be blended with aligned policies, local investment, skills development and protection of natural resources.

The United States’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act adds a 1% tax on most money transfers sent from the US to other countries. The US is the single largest source of remittances to Asia and the Pacific, but the low rate of the tax and the many ways to avoid it will considerably limit its impact, according to research for the July 2025 Asian Development Outlook