A new addition to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMFs) Analyze This! series of information videos focuses on infrastructure spending and its effect on societies. AnalyzeThis! Infrastructure explains how investing in infrastructure such as roads, bridges, […]
Malaysia’s economy is forecast to grow by 4.5 per cent in 2017 while the government’s financial policies are on track to meet medium-term objectives in a baseline scenario of moderate growth, low inflation, and external […]
Just five months after the World Bank’s Myanmar Economic Monitor (MEM) projected 2016-17 Myanmar GDP to rise to 7.8 per cent and average 8.2 per cent per year over the medium-term, a report by the […]
Last year’s extreme drought and contractions in the mining sector have combined to strip Vietnam of its stellar economic growth for 2016, while what effect the death two weeks ago of King Bhumibol Adulyadej will […]
Slightly more than 30 years have now passed since Corazon Aquino, a steely housewife-turned-political-icon sporting yellow dress and matching spectacles, assumed the presidency of the Philippines after Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda were ousted […]
Put in a comparative historical perspective Indonesia’s economic growth performance has been relatively strong. Yet the recent slowdown in growth is a cause for concern. According to official figures the Indonesian economy grew by only […]