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Trade Finance: A Catalyst for Growth in Asia
While large businesses have resumed international trade at levels seen before the financial crisis,
small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have not fared as well.
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report
Global Opportunity Index 2022: Focus on Emerging Southeast Asia
This report uses the 2022 Global Opportunity Index (GOI) and its various categories to examine the
attractiveness of emerging Southeast Asia as a foreign investment destination—especially when compared to other emerging markets and developing economies
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report
Wisdom in the Workforce: Unlocking the Economic Value of Asia’s Aging Population
Older populations are growing rapidly in a number of Asian countries. As working people reach age m
ilestones and exit the labor force, questions arise: How will the traditional retirement years be financed?
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staff
Curtis S. Chin
Curtis S. Chin is Chair, Asia Fellows; Senior Advisor, Global Markets at the Milken Institute. He
is a former U.S.
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article
Malaysia Is Top Country in Emerging Southeast Asia for Foreign Investment, Says Milken Institute
Milken Institute’s Global Opportunity Index evaluates 126 countries across seven geographic regions
– highlighting emerging Southeast Asia – to measure their potential attractiveness to foreign investors; Sweden ranks No.1 overall in best countries
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report
Currency Manipulation Provisions Do Not Belong in Trade Agreements
Demands for provisions to stop currency manipulation by foreign governments have become central to
the congressional debate over proposed trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, under
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panel
Creating Community Wealth and New Revenue: Public Assets Workshop
Cities across the country are allowing billions of dollars of assets to sit idle without taking
advantage of huge opportunities for revenue.
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article
Tech innovation need not be 'Made in the USA'
Lessons from California for Asian entrepreneurs and start-ups
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Creating Community Wealth and New Revenue: Public Assets Workshop
Cities across the country are allowing billions of dollars of assets to sit idle without taking ad
vantage of huge opportunities for revenue.
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article
Fear of a Currency War Grows
HONG KONG – While China may well have hoped to focus on the end of World War II and Japan’s war
time record, the Chinese central bank’s major devaluation of the yuan this week has large parts of Asia now worried about the prospects of a currency war
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article
Intervention China-style
China’s dramatic devaluation of the yuan this week has large parts of Asia worried about the prospec
ts of a currency war, even as attention had begun to turn to the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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