(CPV)- Business leaders from the Asia Pacific region have expressed concern over new trade protection measures that have emerged in the wake of the global financial crisis.

(CPV)- Developing Asia's rapidly expanding middle class is likely to assume the traditional role of the US and Europe as primary global consumers and help rebalance the global economy, says a new report on Asia’s middle class from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

(CPV)- Asia has shown more resilience than initially expected to the global financial crisis, with major economies posting solid growth, even as demand for exports from the US and Europe slumped, says a new report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

(CPV)- The strong economic recovery in emerging East Asia means it is time to unwind monetary and fiscal policy stimulus across the region, says the July edition of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Asia Economic Monitor (AEM) released on July 20^th 2010.

(CPV)- Poverty and illiteracy rates have been slashed but governments in East and Southeast Asia need to speed up health and environment improvements to meet the looming 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Asia Development Bank (ADB), UNDP and UNESCAP said at a forum in Shanghai on July 13^th 2010.

The 6th session of the National Committee for ASEAN took place on June 28 with Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem, who is also the committee’s president, as the chair.

(CPV)– As Trade Ministers from across APEC prepare for their annual meeting later this week, the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) has delivered a set of five recommendations, with the intent that they be taken to APEC Leaders.

(CPV)- The labour market in Southeast Asian countries tends to be flexible, as in the NIEs. Some countries have minimum wage policies, but for the most part they tend to be non-binding. Human capital investments in Southeast Asian countries were generally not as successful as those in the NIEs.

(CPV)- At the end of World War II, the SEA countries enjoyed a relative abundance of land and natural resources. Their populations were growing rapidly, however, which resulted in high dependency ratios, and prevailing poverty and underdeveloped educational systems meant extreme scarcity of skilled labour.

(CPV)- The NIEs have been described as “Asian tigers with a dragon head'' (Castells 1992) because they adopted similar policies and human resource strategies to achieve political stability and economic growth.

(CPV)- Vietnam is a regional latecomer to modern economic development. While this is an obvious disadvantage in terms of growth, it does present the country’s policy makers with the opportunity to observe and learn from the experiences of neighbouring countries. We can review relevant aspects of recent regional development experience. We review approaches t promoting economic growth. We examine labour market in institutions and policies and their impacts on employment, labour productivity, and urbanization.

(CPV)- Governments in emerging Asia should stay on guard and be ready to act if volatile capital inflows threaten to destabilize the region's financial markets, says a new report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on May 18th, 2010.

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(CPV)- If labour-intensive exports are “footloose” and resource exports are volatile, then what are the conditions for a globalized economy to succeed, or at least to secure a toehold, in the most rapidly expanding segment of Asian (and global) trade, parts and components? Clearly labour force skills and mobility are essential to the health of an industry where production processes are highly specialized and technology can change wit hgreat rapidity. However, there are other factors also at work.

(CPV)- The majority of developing Asian economies have been drawn into the China-centered international production network, resulting in some cases major changes in production structure and the volume and direction of their international trade.

(CPV)- The emergence of China and India as major economic powers, forcing other countries to “dance with the giants” (Winter and Yusuf, 2007) has already led to major changes in trade and investment patterns in Asia. In many ways, this sea-change in international economic organization has highlighted complementarities, rather than competition, among economies.

(CPV)- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) was on track in its performance in 2009 to deliver output targets in the core sectors of infrastructure, education and finance in the region, says an ADB report released on Wednesday.

(CPV)- Citigroup today (April 19) reported first quarter 2010 net income of 4.4 billion USD or 0.15 USD per diluted share, and revenues of 25.4 billion USD, said Citi Vietnam office.

(CPV)- Developing Asia's strong recovery from the effects of the global economic crisis is expected to continue through the next two years, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) says in a new major report.