Spotlight Archives
- ADB Blog: Developing countries should not worry yet about Wall Street bashing28 Mar 2016ADB Principal Economist and ARIC Team Leader Jong Woo Kang shares some trends in developing Asia's financial market integration and insights on further financial market deepening as key to economic development. Read the blog here.
- Asia Development Policy Lecture Series: Shared Socio-Economic Pathways—Implications for Asia22 March 2016Director of Purdue University's Center for Global Trade Analysis Prof. Dominique van der Mensbrugghe spoke 21 March at ADB kHub on how evolving demographics and structure of economic growth will influence Asia’s future climate and environmental policies.
- ADB Blog: Time to go back to the basics to benefit more from trade02 March 2016ADB Principal Economist and ARIC Team Leader Jong Woo Kang explains how cyclical and structural factors have slowed down global trade in the past half-decade and what should be done to shore it up amid sluggish global demand. Read the blog here.
- ADB Blog: Will Kaesong shutdown mark the end of a unique SEZ experiment?23 February 2016ADB Principal Economist and ARIC Team Leader Jong Woo Kang writes a blog on Special Economic Zones (SEZs), highlighting the benefits of pursuing these zones as an overarching development strategy. Read the blog here.
- RCI Chat January-February 2016February 2016Grab a copy of January-February issue of RCI Chat! RCI Chat tracks regional cooperation and integration news in Asia focusing on cross-border infrastructure, trade and investment, money and finance, and regional public goods.
- Call for papers: ADB 2016 Conference on FDIFeb 2016The Regional Cooperation and Integration Division (ERCI) of the ADB's Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, intends to investigate the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in fostering inclusive economic growth and regional integration, Click here for more details.
- ARIC FTA Database UpdateFebruary 2016The ARIC Free Trade Agreement (FTA) database February 2016 update registers 220 FTA that are under negotiations, signed but not yet in effect, and in force. 140 FTAs are now effective from only 106 five years ago. The rest are either pending ratification or under negotiation.
- The ARIC website has a new look!Jan 2016We have given the ARIC website a facelift, to make it easier to navigate - both from your desktop and from your mobile devices. Through this, we can more effectively disseminate knowledge and information on RCI progress and initiatives in Asia and the Pacific. Share your comments via email, Facebook or Twitter.
- New Book: Production Networks and Enterprises in East AsiaJan 2016
- RCI Chat November-December 2015December 2015Grab a copy of November-December issue of RCI Chat! RCI Chat tracks regional cooperation and integration news in Asia focusing on cross-border infrastructure, trade and investment, money and finance, and regional public goods.
