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11 Apr 16
Boosting productivity and bringing more people into the labour market must be Japan’s “number one priority” if it is to compensate for its rapidly shrinking workforce, the OECD has warned.
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8 Apr 16
Asian Development Bank president Takehiko Nakao has announced he intends to stand for re-election to the role.
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8 Apr 16
A $200m investment agreement has been signed for the initial funding of a pipeline that will deliver 33 billion cubic metres of natural gas annually from Turkmenistan all the way through to India.
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7 Apr 16
The executive board of troubled Malaysian national development fund 1MDB have today offered their resignations following a damning report into the scandal from the country’s Public Accounts Committee...
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5 Apr 16
A new big data tool, launched today in the Philippines, looks set to help manage traffic flows in congested city streets across southeast Asia.
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31 Mar 16
New Zealand’s first real rise in benefits in almost half a century is to come into effect tomorrow, according to social development minister Anne Tolley.
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30 Mar 16
Growth across Asia and the Pacific is set to slow this year and next year as a result of a continued weak recovery globally and softer prospects for China, according to the Asian Development Bank.
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23 Mar 16
The Japanese government should introduce reforms to boost wages growth as part of economic plans to help the country escape from deflation
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22 Mar 16
The Asian Development Bank has announced $250m to support the treatment of harmful industrial wastewater and sludge in China.
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22 Mar 16
Local public services in Indonesia stand to be improved after a “bottom up” model to spot problems and enact solutions was successfully tested.
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21 Mar 16
China should prioritise reforms to open up its economy, reduce inequality and expand innovation on its “bumpy” transition to a new growth model, International Monetary Fund managing director...
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21 Mar 16
The powers of the attorney general and public prosecutor in Malaysia should be separated in order to establish greater independence in the country’s judiciary, Transparency International has...
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17 Mar 16
Bold action will be needed from policymakers across developing Asia to counteract China’s slowdown, which could knock a third of a percentage point off growth in the rest of the region for the next...
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15 Mar 16
Government spending in Indonesia is driving a modest pick-up in growth but a more solid recovery will depend on private sector investment, the World Bank has said.
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14 Mar 16
Reforms that will allow Asia to capitalise on its economic success are vital to the global economy, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has said.
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9 Mar 16
The Asian Development Bank has re-entered the US dollar bond market with the sale of a $3bn, five-year global benchmark bond.
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8 Mar 16
The Chinese Renminbi is to be identified in the International Monetary Fund’s official foreign reserves database as of October, the fund has announced.
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7 Mar 16
A deal between the Asian Development Bank and the Eurasian Development Bank will see the banks work together to invest $3bn in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
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3 Mar 16
Australia could see its annual disaster bill almost quadruple by 2050, to an average of AU$33bn, as population density and the severity and frequency of disasters increases.
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3 Mar 16
Pragmatic, targeted and well-sequenced public finance management reforms are more likely to lead to success than ambitious, large-scale overhauls, the Asian Development Bank vice president has said.
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2 Mar 16
India is on the road to recovery, but the world’s fastest growing economy could still do more to bolster resilience and growth potential, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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2 Mar 16
India and the World Bank have signed a $300m credit agreement to support improvements to government-run higher education institutions in a large central Indian state.
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1 Mar 16
The UK’s Department for International Development is to help strengthen the use of evidence-based policy and decision making with a grant of $21m.
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29 Feb 16
The Indian government has unveiled its 2016/17 budget, prioritising more support for the rural poor, infrastructure and recapitalisation of the country’s banks.
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29 Feb 16
The World Bank approved a $120m loan to China last week to support transport development in Wuhan, the capital of central China’s Hubei province.