Regional cooperation and integration
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Will 2025 be the final deadline for the AEC?
By Jayant Menon, Anna Cassandra Melendez on Monday, 24 July 2017
The ASEAN Economic Community’s 2025 blueprint addresses many gaps, but uncertainties remain ahead of the deadline.
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Time for SMEs in CAREC to move beyond borders
By Ayumi Konishi on Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Cross-border development is crucial for SMEs to realize their potential as drivers of growth and job creation in Central Asia.
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Watch regional cooperation in energy
By Sohail Hasnie on Friday, 07 July 2017
Spilling hydropower in one country can benefit a neighboring country that lacks power or is relying on diesel.
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6 ways Asian economic cooperation is changing the region
By Cuong Minh Nguyen on Tuesday, 30 May 2017
Asia is going through sweeping transformations that have altered its economic landscape in fundamental ways.
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Earn, Learn, Return – APEC’s vision for skills mobility
By Guntur Sugiyarto on Wednesday, 17 May 2017
The principle underpinning ELR is that employment in a foreign country is temporary, and the nature of this employment is circular.
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Asia needs both hard infrastructure, software
By Stephen P. Groff on Monday, 15 May 2017
Vice-President Stephen Groff gives an update from the Beijing launch of the PRC-led Belt and Road Initiative.
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India's first coastal corridor to drive manufacturing, growth
By Hoe Yun Jeong on Friday, 12 May 2017
The East Coast Economic Corridor will leverage the country’s coastline and ports to connect with global value chains.
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ASEAN needs more skills mobility to realize AEC potential
By Guntur Sugiyarto on Monday, 17 April 2017
Mutual recognition arrangements can help ASEAN stop the brain drain, and remain globally competitive.
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SASEC’s new vision to transform subregion
By Hun Kim on Friday, 31 March 2017
The agenda will help SASEC countries take the partnership to the next level.
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Is Asia's growth independent of the West?
By Cyn-Young Park on Monday, 27 March 2017
For now, Asia does not yet appear to be decoupling from the world economy.
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Connecting Asia's growth poles
By Wencai Zhang on Monday, 06 March 2017
By standing together, Asia’s growth poles can take the next step toward even greater prosperity.
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India infrastructure: Connecting Bihar
By Saleha Waseem on Monday, 06 February 2017
A new bridge will help link the state to other parts of India, and beyond.
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What type of protectionism should we fear?
By Jong Woo Kang on Monday, 30 January 2017
If history is any guide, protectionism comes and goes, so the current rising tide will recede eventually.
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6 challenges to advancing GMS economic corridors
By Cuong Minh Nguyen on Monday, 15 August 2016
Despite notable progress, economic corridors remain a work in progress due to key constraints to their future development in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
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How and why we network Asian think tanks
By Li Dongxiang on Thursday, 11 August 2016
Networking enhances peer learning, strengthens collective capacities, bridges the gap between research and policy advice, and eventually contributes to the effectiveness of public policies in developing Asia.
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Why economic corridor development is the way forward for South Asia
By Hoe Yun Jeong on Tuesday, 26 July 2016
If implemented well, this strategy promises more robust industrial growth, improved productivity, higher-paying jobs and skills development, influx of foreign investors, and increased exports.
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The benefits of South-South knowledge sharing for Asia-Pacific
By Fei Yu on Thursday, 14 July 2016
The joint ADB-PRC Regional Knowledge Sharing Initiative is launching a website to serve as a platform for sharing the PRC’s experiences, methods, ideas and opinions on what works and what doesn’t in development.
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A truly global energy project in Uzbekistan
By Sean M. O’Sullivan on Thursday, 30 June 2016
Sean O’Sullivan, ADB Director General for Central and West Asia, gives an update on a $1.2 billion project to improve the electricity supply with two giant gas turbines in Uzbekistan.
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Why we should be happy when SASEC customs officials talk more
By Rose McKenzie on Tuesday, 28 June 2016
More coordination and cooperation at the borders will create greater efficiencies that are passed on to traders so business becomes faster and cheaper – a cross-border win-win situation for all in South Asia.
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Go back to basics to help ASEAN SMEs benefit from AEC
By Ganeshan Wignaraja on Monday, 27 June 2016
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.
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