ASEAN’s middle-income economies face mounting challenges escaping economic stagnation due to weak institutions, limited domestic innovation and over-reliance on foreign multinationals. Unlike ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Southeast Asia finds itself in unfamiliar territory. On the surface, it has been a good year: the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur admitted Timor-Leste as the bloc’s 11th member.

Over the last half century, the global economy has expanded 30-fold, from around $3 trillion in 1970 to more than $110 trillion in 2024. This remarkable surge is often attributed to openness: more ...

ASEAN faces significant humanitarian and coordination challenges if a crisis erupts in the Taiwan Strait. More than 700,000 Southeast Asians live and work on the island and current evacuation planning ...

(Last of two parts) 4. Depoliticize monetary policy — but don’t stop there In the 1970s, weakly independent central banks, ...