The Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) and the bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, parliamentarians, private sector executives, representatives from civil society organizations and...

Draft Programme: - Keynote Address: The Future of East Asia Integration: East Asia Summit and ASEAN Community Beyond 2015 - Panel Session 1: A Decade of East Asia Summit and Economic Regionalism: How can we pursue our growth strategy and achieve structural reform? - Panel Session 2: ASEAN...

East Asia continues to be the world’s economically fastest-growing region and its most populous. Projected to maintain an average growth rate above 7% in 2015, it boasts some of the world’s most prosperous economies such as Australia, China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. East Asia is...

Robust economic growth and an improved investment climate have underpinned the economic recovery of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), buoyed by an emerging market of nearly 600 million consumers. The planned economic integration by 2015 will see ASEAN emerge as the world’s...