Industry and Trade

Aid for Trade: An Investment-Benefit Road Map from South Asia

How to build bridges to export markets so that people in the economic periphery have a better opportunity to take poverty off their own maps. Read More

Asia's Path to Prosperity

Industrialization must be an essential part of the growth formula if Asian countries are to prosper and avoid the 'middle income trap,' says ADB report. Read More

Free Trade: Untangling Asia’s Noodle Bowl

Trade liberalization initiatives have blossomed across Asia and the Pacific, creating a convoluted 'noodle bowl' of overlapping free trade agreements. Read More

Empowering Enterprising Women in Asia

Women make up more than half the population of Asia. The region would earn an additional $89 billion annually if women were able to achieve their full economic potential. Read More

Promoting Regional Trade in Asia and the Pacific

ADB’s overarching goal of poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific is contingent on the growth of small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and regional trade among partners. The key objective is to boost productivity and help create more jobs for 750 million people. Essential to this is expanding and improving trade so the benefits can be shared by all economies in the region.

Free trade agreements

With the continuous proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in the Asia and Pacific region, the ARIC FTA database tracks and provides a comprehensive listing of all bilateral and plurilateral FTAs with at least one Asian country as signatory. It covers all agreements at all stages of development, from those under study or consultation to those in force. View database