ADB’s Chief Economist provides insight into Asia’s development and overcoming the middle-income trap

Tony Addison, Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, discusses the key barriers to growth and how to overcome them.

Could central banks co-investing in private companies hold a possible solution to many developing government budgetary issues?

Contrary to widely held views, trade can decrease GDP volatility through sectoral specialisation and country-wide diversification

An unfavourable ratio of young men to young women could explain simultaneously skyrocketing housing prices and rising home ownership

The future may bring political tensions in reconciling economic dreams with the economic reality of slower growth

Updated projections forecast a world starkly different from today’s, with poor countries accounting for nearly 70% of global GDP in 2030.