Industry and trade

Exercise Equity Market: A Financing Model to Vitalize SMEs

Let's create a market mechanism that incubates 'smaller but growing' firms that will eventually tap the exchange market.

Shigehiro Shinozaki

Fast-tracking Myanmar's reform

Over just 3 years, Myanmar has introduced ambitious reforms which have put it on track to become a modern economy. But big challenges still lie ahead.

Stephen P. Groff

Feeding the Millions in Southeast Asia: How Thin is Thin?

This is not about how to start the Lunar New Year right with proper weight management. Well, not exactly, as this is about thin trade and why thin is not good especially during excessive upswings and downswings of prices for Asia’s main food staple—rice.

Lourdes Adriano

Four things International Youth Day Summit taught us about social media

In recent years, the rise of social media has been ceaseless and rapid. It has managed to create a universe of its own—one that often leaves governments, organizations, and corporations alike continuously striving to keep up.

Chely Esguerra

Georgian youth may find tourism jobs in agriculture, as visitors become interested in locally sourced produce.

Georgian Youth’s Big Hope for the Future

If the tourism industry becomes truly sustainable, Georgian youth will have a reason to stay in their regions, or even return to them from Tbilisi.

Renard Teipelke, Lee Lambert

Globalization: Between Walls and Roads

In today’s multipolar world, creating barriers to trade will invariably result in reciprocity, so in the end all countries will be worse off.

M. Joseph Mariasingham

A street vendor does business from his roadside stall in Melaka, Malaysia.

Go Back to Basics to Help ASEAN SMEs Benefit from AEC

There is no single or simple solution to ensure SMEs benefit from regional integration schemes – ASEAN economies need to fix key productivity, regulatory, infrastructure, and financing gaps.

Ganeshan Wignaraja