Spotlight Archives
- Time to Forge Ties to Achieve East Asia's Stability and Prosperity, ADB President Says at Summit15 January 2007East Asia should build now on its recent economic achievements to forge ties that can achieve a vision of lasting stability and prosperity for the region, ADB's President Haruhiko Kuroda told leaders at the Second East Asia Summit. Read the speech.
- International Symposium – “Asia is Moving Forward: Ten Years after the Crisis” 1 January 2007Ten years from the start of the Asian financial crisis, ADB will host a symposium on 2 July 2007 to review the recovery of crisis-affected countries and the challenges Asian economies face in embracing regionalism. Thai Finance Minister Chalongphob Sussangkarn and Malaysian Central Bank Governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz will join a panel of distinguished speakers. See program.
- ADB Seminar Series on Regional Economic Integration: Managing East Asian Regionalism12 December 2006In his presentation yesterday, Professor Richard Baldwin of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, stressed the need to launch a new East Asia regional management effort, prioritizing the streamline of free trade agreements. OREI Head Masahiro Kawai moderated the seminar. See his paper and presentation.
- Asia Economic Monitor December 2006 Update08 December 2006"With the external environment likely to be somewhat less supportive, and growth in Japan and the PRC also moderating, average GDP growth in East Asia is forecast to slow from a postcrisis peak of 4.9% this year to a still robust 4.4% in 2007". This is according to the Asia Economic Monitor launched at a news conference in Hong Kong, China yesterday. Read the news release and the complete report.
- OREI Business Plan29 November 2006The Office of Regional Economic Integration (OREI) was established to facilitate regional cooperation and integration (RCI) in Asia and the Pacific. OREI assists ADB in pursuing an open and outward-looking regionalism in Asia and the Pacific that can serve as a building block to global integration. Based on ADB’s RCI strategy, the OREI Business Plan 2006-2010 sets out OREI’s mission, business principles, key result areas, and results framework.
- The Asian Bond Markets Summit 14 November 2006OREI Head and Special Advisor to the President Masahiro Kawai delivered a keynote address at the Asian Bond Markets Summit in Singapore on 14 November 2006. He also led the launch of the November issue of the Asia Bond Monitor at a press conference on the same day. Read the speech.
- Asia Bond Monitor (ABM) November Issue Released14 November 2006The Asian Development Bank’s Office of Regional Economic Integration launched the ABM on 14 November 2006 at the Asian Bond Markets Summit in Singapore. The ABM analyzes the development of East Asian local currency bond markets in 2006 and contains a special theme chapter on bond market liquidity. Read the press release. Download the complete report at the AsianBondsOnline website.
- ADB Seminar Series on Regional Economic Integration: East Asian Currency Union 7 November 2006Professor Jong Wha Lee of Korea University discussed the feasibility of various types of currency unions, such as a dollar bloc, Euro bloc, Yen bloc, and basket currency bloc in East Asia; and the welfare effects of various currency unions for East Asian economies. View the presentation and read the paper.
- Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration 1 November 2006The latest Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration assesses whether capital controls have an economic justification within the context of an economy’s and, in particular, its financial sector’s stage of development. It also presents a survey of current capital controls in ASEAN+3. Read more.
- Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration22 November 2006In the latest Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration, Prof. Michael Plummer develops a blueprint for first-best regionalism based on best practices, then gauges the degree to which existing FTAs in Asia, both intra- and extra-regional, approach best practices. Most accords receive high marks in most areas, with the exception of rules of origin and certain service sectors. Read more.
