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Asean+3's role in a rapidly fragmenting world
News, Hoe Ee Khor & Jae Young Lee, Published on 20/06/2025
» The risks posed by the fragmentation of the multilateral trading system transcend mere inefficiencies. Without a coherent, rules-based framework, global value chains will become vulnerable, investment risks will rise, and smaller, trade-dependent economies will be left increasingly exposed to the arbitrariness of bigger nations.
The post-Covid fiscal tightrope
Oped, Hoe Ee Khor, Rolf Strauch & Carlos Giraldo, Published on 26/02/2025
» As economies worldwide start to emerge from the inflation-fueled cost-of-living crisis that followed the Covid-19 pandemic, fiscal policymakers are confronting a sobering reality: they are not out of the woods yet.
An 'Asean way' for governance of AI
Oped, Shuan Ee & Jam Kraprayoon, Published on 10/10/2024
» As other countries plough ahead with their signature initiatives for governing AI, the pressure is on Asean to show that it, too, has something to say.
A new policy agenda for Asia
Oped, Hoe Ee Khor & Runchana Pongsaparn, Published on 01/02/2024
» The global economic landscape is changing fast. Scarring from the Covid-19 pandemic has weakened potential growth, making slower income gains the new normal for many countries.
Rising rates won't trigger crisis
Oped, Hoe Ee Khor, Published on 09/08/2022
» Hawkish shifts in the US Federal Reserve’s monetary policy have often led to heightened financial and economic stress in emerging economies. In the early 1990s, the Fed raised interest rates preemptively to curb inflation, precipitating the 1994 Mexican “tequila” crisis. In 2013, the Fed signalled its intention to tighten monetary policy, resulting in the major emerging-markets sell-off known as the “taper tantrum”.
Fixing the US-China tech split
Oped, Hoe Ee Khor & Suan Yong Foo, Published on 12/08/2021
» Heightened US-China tensions have raised the prospect of a deep global technology divide, potentially forcing other countries to choose which camp to join. There are plenty of grim scenarios involving irreconcilable splits between core technologies that power a wide range of products and services, from aircraft and automobiles to precision engineering for robotics and payment systems for e-commerce. Should these scenarios materialise, the world's two largest economies will pour huge amounts of resources into a zero-sum race to control technology's cutting edge.
Southeast Asia's vaccine-shaped road to recovery
Oped, Swee Kheng Khor, Published on 25/03/2021
» Vaccines can't come soon enough for Southeast Asia (SEA), with more than 2.5 million Covid-19 cases, 54,000 deaths and deep economic contractions in the pandemic's first year. To achieve successful national vaccination programmes, SEA countries can be guided by three overarching strategies for vaccine supplies, confidence and delivery.