ASEAN's drive towards regional economic integration includes developing a cross-border digital payment system for seamless financial transactions and promoting the use of local currencies, aiming to ...

Second, corridor-based integration offers scalability. Success along the Almaty–Bishkek axis could be replicated along other ...

The year 2025 held foundational significance in building momentum and positioning the country to advance rapidly and strongly ...

Digitalisation is a key focus for the bloc, but more consensus is needed, say economists Read more at The Business Times.

The theme for Indonesia’s chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2023, “ASEAN Matters: Epicentrum of Growth,” aims to validate Southeast Asia’s status as an epicenter of ...

Abu Dhabi: The Economic Integration Committee held its second meeting of 2026, chaired by H.E. Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, ...

Journalists interested in learning about economic integration in Asia Pacific can attend this online report launch. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is hosting a virtual event, "Harnessing the ...

The rise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and its growing influence on the global stage has become a central theme in contemporary international relations, challenging the longstanding ...

African countries are pursuing stronger regional integration to reap the benefits of larger markets and take advantage of economies of scale; and to tackle regional and global challenges such as ...

From the 1960s to the mid-1980s, Western-owned or Western-controlled financial institutions governed Africa’s banking system. In 1985, everything changed when Gervais Koffi Djondo co-founded the ...

Discussions of the United States–Israel relationship tend to focus on security assistance, as though the partnership were primarily an exercise in strategic patronage. However, this framing overlooks ...