Despite remaining the fastest growing region, the World Bank's latest report says East Asia and Pacific's growth is projected to ease to 4.5% in 2024 from 5.1% last year amid headwinds in China and ...

Few parts of the global economy hold more obvious promise than South-East Asia. Multinational firms hoping to move manufacturing away from China are racing to establish supply chains in the region.

In East and Southeast Asia, democracy must be understood within the region’s unique political, historical and economic contexts. While liberal values are present, many citizens prioritise stability, ...

WASHINGTON, October 7, 2025 — East Asia and Pacific region continues to outperform most of the rest of the world, but creating more jobs and sustaining growth will require ambitious reforms as the ...

There is considerable uncertainty in Southeast Asia regarding what a resurgent China means for the region. Over the past four decades, the once impoverished communist country has emerged as the ...

In the decades immediately ahead, East Asia will experience perhaps the modern world’s most dramatic demographic shift. All of the region’s main states—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—are about ...

“In a troubled world, Asia is the healthiest region right now for higher education and for student mobility,” said sector expert and professor of higher education at the University of Oxford Simon ...