Spotlight Archives
- SASEC launches its website 19 DecemberDecember 2012SASEC is a project-based initiative promoting economic cooperation by enhancing cross-border connectivity, trade facilitation, and energy security among member countries—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal. Priority areas for cooperation are transport, trade facilitation, and energy. Visit the website http://www.sasec.asia.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 103 - Japan's Education Services Imports: Branch Campus or Subsidiary Campus?December 2012S. Hamanaka reviews the development of regulatory status of services trade in tertiary education services, especially education through oversea campuses, and considers the policy implications on issues regarding the regulation of services industry. Read more.
- Pacific Economic Monitor - December 2012December 2012The smallest Pacific island economies can overcome economic growth challenges related to isolation and low populations by expanding economic links and using technology to build connections, according to the December issue of the Asian Development Bank's Pacific Economic Monitor. Read report and news release.
- Asia Bond Monitor November 201222 November 2012The latest Asia Bond Monitor reports that Emerging East Asia’s local currency bond markets continue to expand and are performing well, but warns that risks loom large on the horizon. Read the press release. Download the report.
- Iwan Azis: Asia will continue to integrate despite eurozone crisis16 November 2012Iwan J. Azis, Head of ADB's Office of Regional Economic Integration, discusses the progress of regional integraton in Asia and the effect of the eurozone crisis. Read more in the Asia Pathways, the blog of the ADB Institute, here.
- OREI talks about realizing the Asian Century12 November 2012Jayant Menon, OREI's Lead Economist, talked about realizing the Asian Century during the event "Structural Change and the Rise of Asia" jointly hosted by the International Monetary Fund, Australia's Treasury, and the Reserve Bank of Australia on 19 September 2012 in Canberra. View video and read transcript here.
- The Role of Production Networks in Sustaining and Rebalancing Asia's Growth (3 Oct 2012, ADB HQ)3 October 2012Willem Thorbecke, Senior Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (RIETI) will discuss how developing Asia could leverage production networks to facilitate technology transfer to domestic firms. He will also talk about how a regional FTA could bring Asian producers and consumers together as well as how infrastructure investment could help to rebalance growth in the region.
- Regional Economic Integration and Inclusive Growth18 September 2012The ADB Office of Regional Economic Integration (OREI) co-sponsored a forum on “Regional Economic Integration and Inclusive Growth” with the Philippine Institute for Development Studies and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN last 17 September. The forum highlighted the progress of RCI in Asia, the Philippine’s preparedness for economic integration within the ASEAN Economic Community framework, and the role of small and medium enterprises. Read more.
- GMS holds 20th Anniversary celebration at ADB Manila 14 September14 September 2012The one-day celebration of the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Program was attended by high-level and senior government officials from GMS member countries. Proceedings included a Conference highlighting the Program's achievements and prospects under the new GMS Strategy 2012—2022, GMS Exhibit and launch of key GMS publications, and a Gala Dinner showcasing Mekong’s rich heritage. Press Release | Event Page | Theme Paper
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 102 - Anatomy of South–South FTAs in Asia: Comparisons with Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific IslandsSeptember 2012S. Hamanaka looks into FTAs in Asia since 2000 and explores the implication of the proliferation of the Enabling Clause-based FTAs to the openness of Asian regionalism. He proposes two ways to address negative externalities caused by FTAs based on the Enabling Clause. Read more
