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South Asia’s growth is expected to slow in 2026 amid headwinds from global energy market dislocation. Trade reforms could unlock further growth by reducing trade barriers, especially for emerging export sectors.
Labor markets around the world are being reshaped by powerful trends, including rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), and population aging in some regions and youth bulges in others. AI's impact on labor markets is multifaceted and complex: It has the potential to create new job opportu...
The LAC AI Accelerator is a regional initiative that aims to foster the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) use cases, especially agentic AI use cases, across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries.
The idea of Europe as a community emerged many centuries ago, but its meaning keeps changing—to Europeans and non-Europeans alike. Juliet Johnson has pioneered research on the changing role of European symbols such as the 12-starred flag, designed in the 1950s and formally adopted by European ins...
How to Win a Trade War
Soumaya Keynes and Chad P. Bown discuss their new book How to Win a Trade War, available for pre-order. Trade wars are here to stay, and refusing to engage in the fight is no longer an option. President Donald Trump's tariff announcements can crash markets and sour decades-long alliances. China's...
Learn how China's economy has evolved in recent years, ranging from its manufacturing exports sector to the massive housing boom and bust and more, with one of PIIE's top China experts, Senior Fellow Tianlei Huang. What can we learn from China's changing consumption and investment patterns? How d...
Demir cevheri fiyatlarında altı günlük yükseliş: Çin talebi piyasayı destekliyor
In a special update to its economic forecasts, ADB has significantly downgraded its economic growth outlook and raised inflation projections for developing Asia and the Pacific as more severe and prolonged disruptions from the conflict in the Middle East continue to raise energy prices, tighten f...
ADB and Far East Horizon Limited have signed a CNY709 million ($100 million equivalent) loan to support financial leasing to accelerate the green and low-emission transition of its client enterprises in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
ADB issued its first Disaster Relief Bond offerings, also known as catastrophe bonds, as part of its regional Risk-Layered Disaster Relief Finance Program which aims to reduce the financial impact of natural hazards and climate-related shocks. The bonds are designed to protect against severe disa...
ADB has launched a new financing facility to help countries in Asia and the Pacific develop critical minerals supply chains needed for clean energy, batteries, electric vehicles, and digital technology.
