A new report by the World Bank finds that if ECA countries had maintained their pre-crisis productivity pace, today’s GDP ...
Firms’ limited access to adequate, stable and diversified financing hinders business growth in Europe and Central Asia. Most ...
The defining geopolitical contest of our time is between China and the United States. And as tensions rise over trade and Taiwan, among other things, concern is understandably mounting in many ...
In a bustling Delhi neighborhood, forensics teams combed through the charred skeleton of a car. Less than 24 hours later, the air outside Islamabad’s judicial complex was thick with the aftermath of a ...
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Asia are in a unique position to take a leading role to shift economic activity from polluting to green. Yet so far, most SOEs have underutilised green financial ...
Central Asian states are simplifying customs procedures and strengthening property rights to attract more Western trade and investment. Uzbekistan and Tajikistan signed agreements to streamline ...
FOR MUCH of June the 23m people in and around Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, suffered in temperatures of up to 38°C. Fans and air-conditioners were of little use—the country experienced power cuts on ...
ON CITY STREETS, say visitors to Almaty in Kazakhstan, to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan and to Tashkent in Uzbekistan, a change in the ethnic mix makes it feel surreally as if the Soviet Union has been ...