Linking Asia’s financial markets will help the region respond to the next crisis
Just as past crises triggered international and regional financial cooperation, the pandemic offers an opportunity to collectively improve financial resilience and soundness.
Why have bankruptcies fallen during the pandemic?
Government assistance programs, and relaxed insolvency procedures, have helped keep businesses afloat during the pandemic.
How governments can use tax policy to speed pandemic recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic has created opportunities for a fairer, more robust and more efficient tax revenue and spending system.
Can the pandemic help end the paper chase that is hobbling international trade?
Paper-based trade is a drag on the efficiency of the global trading system. Digitization will make trade and supply chains more robust, and the world more secure.
Deal or no deal: Asia needs to craft innovative partnerships to pay for infrastructure
Developing economies in Asia have for years relied on partnerships with the private sector to pay for infrastructure projects. That could be in jeopardy during the pandemic.
Southeast Asia needs high-performing public sector to beat COVID-19
To respond to the challenges of the pandemic and deliver services effectively, a professional civil service needs to build the values, culture and skills required to respond to complex demands and challenges.
RCEP is a gargantuan trade deal but will economies be able to make the most of it?
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership brings 15 nations and 2.2 billion people into a trade partnership. It also offers broad economic and societal benefits that go beyond imports and exports.
规模庞大的RCEP贸易协定能否被各经济体充分利用？
《区域全面经济伙伴关系协定》将15个国家和22亿人口纳入到一个贸易伙伴关系当中。该协定不仅仅局限于进出口贸易，它还将产生广泛的经济和社会效益。
COVID-19 is sending millions of overseas workers back into Southeast Asia’s rural areas
With the right policies, enough jobs can be created to employ returning workers and creating the opportunity for a new era in agricultural entrepreneurship in the region.
The ghost gear that haunts the world’s oceans
Lost or discarded fishing gear has become a growing menace in our oceans, killing sea life and contributing to plastic pollution that threatens humans as well.