This report shows how taking a gender-responsive approach to procurement that centers on buying from women-owned businesses can mainstream gender into trade to build more sustainable markets for women entrepreneurs in Asia and the Pacific.

By Manuela V. Ferro, World Bank Vice President for East Asia and Pacific. APEC Finance Ministers' Meeting 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand.

A report by a Study Group established by the Asian Consultative Council of the Bank for International Settlements.

A key delegate at Singapore International Water Week 2022 – a five‑day event for the global water industry to share best practices, showcase technologies and explore solutions – highlighted the urgent nature of the water‑related challenges facing the world. Dechen Tsering, Regional Director and Representative for Asia and the Pacific on the United Nations Environment Programme, said: “We don’t have decades for something that is put into a legally binding instrument to roll down to society. These amazing innovations, these amazing technologies, this amazing finance – it’s not happening fast enough, and we don’t have enough time.”

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has adopted a comprehensive reform road map, featuring a new operating model, to accelerate its transformation and more effectively serve the rapidly changing needs of its developing member countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Asia remains a relative bright spot in an increasingly dimming global economy, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday as it announced cuts in its Asia-Pacific growth projections.

October 2022

Ministers and senior officials of members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) have vowed to continue to explore new areas of cooperation in the digital and green economy as an approach to advance CPTPP.

One of the most significant global investment trends over the last decade is the rise of the exchange traded fund (ETF). Relatively low fees and broad index-based exposure have made these passive investment products extremely popular all over the world. In Asia Pacific, assets under management by ETFs have surged six times over the last ten years1, and Hong Kong has played an important role in the development of the regional market.

China will continue to promote accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

The developing East Asia and Pacific countries is projected to grow by 5 percent in 2022 amid the resurgence of COVID-19 pandemic, tighter financial conditions and the Russia-Ukraine war, the World Bank said Apr.4.

Chinese customs will trial part of the rules of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in some of China's pilot free trade zones, according to the country's customs authority.