Few parts of the global economy hold more obvious promise than South-East Asia. Multinational firms hoping to move manufacturing away from China are racing to establish supply chains in the region.

East Asia has led the global economic recovery since 2020, but its current pace continues to lag behind pre-pandemic levels, ...

Asia, the world’s largest continent, is often divided into six distinct regions to better understand its vast geography, cultures, and economies. A new visualisation highlights these divisions: East ...

In the decades immediately ahead, East Asia will experience perhaps the modern world’s most dramatic demographic shift. All of the region’s main states—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—are about ...

WASHINGTON, October 7, 2025 — East Asia and Pacific region continues to outperform most of the rest of the world, but creating more jobs and sustaining growth will require ambitious reforms as the ...