Spring in Sydney: Reflections from the AFR Asia Summit 2025
GLORIA GE | There’s something about Sydney that always energises me. Its vibrance, diversity, and rhythm are unmatched in other Australia cities. I… Read More
Region | Indonesia and Southeast Asia
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Vietnam’s health sector innovates to tackle climate change: The E-Dengue project
CORDIA CHU AND TUAN PHAM | As the impacts of climate change intensify across Southeast Asia, the health consequences are becoming increasingly urgent and complex. Read More
Borrowing in the shadows: Unpacking Singapore’s illegal loan market
KEVIN LANG, KAIWEN LEONG, HUAILU LI AND HAIBO XU | Despite the scale and impact of illegal moneylending in middle- and high-income economies,… Read More
Green independent power producers (IPPs) in Asia: A practical guide for negotiations and agreements between Chinese and international partners
CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL, FABBY TUMIWA, MUSTAFA SAYED, MUHAMMAD AULIA ANIS, RIKA ISNARTI AND UMAR FAROOQ | 20-MINUTE READ | Download PDF… Read More
From concept to impact: Shifting debt-for-nature swaps from exploratory ideas to empirical insight
CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL AND TIANSHU SUN | Debt-for-Nature Swaps (DNS) have re-emerged as a tool to address the dual crisis of sovereign debt in emerging economies and… Read More
Safeguarding agribusiness: How governments in developing Asia can strengthen export resilience amid natural disasters
MADHUSHIKA PERERA AND SHYAMA RATNASIRI | Natural disasters—whether cyclones, droughts, floods, or earthquakes—are increasingly frequent and severe, with profound implications for nations around… Read More
Advancing the use and sustainability of digital prediction tools for climate-sensitive infectious disease prevention
CORDIA CHU AND TUAN PHAM | The Asia-Pacific region is highly vulnerable to climate-sensitive infectious diseases (CSIDs), including vector-borne illnesses such as dengue, malaria,… Read More
No time to waste–transforming challenges into opportunities for sustainable leadership
CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL, GLORIA GE AND DIAN TJONDRONEGORO | There is no time to waste. As we finalised the Griffith Asia Pacific… Read More
Time to develop an Asia-Pacific Green Development Agenda
CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL, DHRUBA PURKAYASTHA, HEMANT MALLYA, KAVITA VIJ, NITIN BASSI AND SHUVA RAHA | 50 MINUTE READ | Download PDF Introduction The… Read More
Barriers at the gate: Security vetting and its impact on regional diplomacy
SUSAN HARRIS RIMMER AND ELISE STEPHENSON | In the Asia-Pacific, where rapid social and political changes intersect with longstanding traditions, diplomacy plays a… Read More
