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Thailand’s slow economic recovery (Juthathip Jongwanich, East Asia Forum)

Thailand’s economic performance in the third quarter of 2020 showed promising signs of recovery amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The contraction in GDP fell to...

Singapore’s 2020 risk management strategy (Michael Barr, East Asia Forum)

Singapore held an unnecessary general election on 10 July 2020, just after a COVID-19 lockdown as the pandemic continued to run out of control....

AfCFTA – African free trade bloc opens for business, but challenges remain (Joe Bavier, Reuters, WEF)

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) began on New Year's Day 2021. It aims to bring continent-wide free trade to 1.3 billion...

TRADE/TECHNOLOGY – How COVID-19 accelerated the shift towards TradeTech (Alex Capri, Wolfgang Lehmacher, WEF)

Visibility and data-sharing are critical for 21st century supply chain and logistics management. Trading restrictions caused by COVID-19 create opportunities for start-ups. 3D-printing,...

CIRCULAR ECONOMY – Circular Trailblazers: Scale-ups Leading the Way Towards a More Circular Economy (WEF)

The circular transition requires change within and throughout our economic systems. A particular subset of innovators – trailblazers – go the extra mile to...

USA/INDO PACIFIC/INDONESIA – Climbing down from a summit of democratic expectations (Alexander R Arifianto, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/06/climbing-down-from-a-summit-of-democratic-expectations/

BANGLADESH/PANDEMIC – COVID-19 ails Bangladesh’s health, politics and economy (Ali Riaz, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/05/covid-19-ails-bangladeshs-health-politics-and-economy/

TECHNOLOGY – How employers use technology to surveil employees (Darrell M. West, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2021/01/05/how-employers-use-technology-to-surveil-employees/

MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/PANDEMIC – Infographic: The stringency of Middle East and North Africa’s COVID-19 response (Paul Dyer, Isaac Schaider, and Andrew Letzkus, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/infographic-the-stringency-of-middle-east-and-north-africas-covid-19-response/

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