Category: Asia
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Global Growth Enters a Low-Gear Phase
The world economy is entering a distinctly different phase—neither overheating with inflationary pressure nor collapsing into recession. Instead, global growth is settling into a low-gear, below-trend trajectory that reflects structural adjustments across major economies. This new normal challenges the assumptions that shaped global policy, trade flows, and investment strategies over…
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Vietnam and the Quiet Rebalancing of Global Manufacturing
The global manufacturing map has rarely shifted quietly, yet that is precisely what is unfolding as Vietnam consolidates its position as one of Asia’s most consequential manufacturing hubs by 2026. This rise is not a sudden breakout driven by a single policy shock or geopolitical accident. Instead, it reflects a…
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Asia’s Export Engines Under Pressure: Semiconductors, Tariffs, and the Next Growth Reckoning
Asia’s post-pandemic recovery is entering a more fragile phase, shaped less by domestic cycles and more by the reordering of global technology, trade, and power. What appears today as a cyclical slowdown in exports and consumption is, in reality, a deeper structural transition—one where geopolitics, industrial policy, and technology controls…
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Global Economy Distribution 2025: A Deepening Imbalance Between Population and GDP
In 2025, the global economy remains starkly unbalanced when examined through the lens of population versus GDP distribution. The following offers a compelling snapshot of how economic power continues to be concentrated in regions with smaller population shares, raising critical questions about equity, global development, and economic sustainability. The Population-Economy…
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Asia’s Uneven Road to Clean Energy Mobility
Asia stands at a crucial crossroads in its journey toward clean energy mobility. Home to more than half the world’s population and some of its fastest-growing economies, the region’s energy and transportation choices will profoundly influence global climate outcomes. However, the transition to cleaner mobility in Asia is anything but…
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Bridging the Fiscal Gap in South Asia: Insights from the World Bank’s Regional Outlook
South Asia stands at a critical juncture. The World Bank’s latest regional economic update paints a sobering picture of dimming growth prospects, deepening fiscal vulnerabilities, and escalating climate threats. After a decade of external shocks and internal inefficiencies, the region must pivot decisively toward robust revenue mobilization and climate-resilient policy…
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Emerging Markets Outlook 2024–2025: Growth Amid Headwinds
In an increasingly uncertain global economy, emerging market economies (EMs) continue to shine as dynamic engines of growth. With developed economies facing stagnation, it is the EMs—particularly in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa—that are expected to account for nearly 60–65% of global GDP growth over the next…
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Slowing Momentum: What Lowered U.S. Growth Forecasts Mean for the Global Economy
Global economic growth is entering a phase of heightened uncertainty, marked by downward revisions in forecasts for several major economies. Most notably, the United States—a key driver of global demand—has seen its real GDP growth projections for 2025 and 2026 adjusted downward to 1.3% and 1.5%, respectively. These figures represent…
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Redrawing the Map of India-Bangladesh-China Relations
In a region as geopolitically intricate as South Asia, even the quiet shifts in logistics or diplomatic words can carry outsized consequences. A recent development in the India-Bangladesh trade corridor exemplifies this well—particularly around the transshipment of goods from Bangladesh to landlocked neighbors like Nepal, and the evolving implications of…
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