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The China-ASEAN Information Harbor might become an impactful transregional Digital Silk Road project.

On 11 June, Germany passed a much-debated act on due diligence in global supply chains. Frederike Boll writes about the power of alliances, the key…

An analysis of the implications for Southeast Asia.

A Bangladeshi delegation explores small and medium enterprises in Stuttgart.

Urbanists from Europe and Asia are facing some of the same challenges, but from often quite different angles. Experts from nine Asian countries…

If urban development is led by communities it can make cities—and the wider economy—more inclusive and socially just. Indonesian urbanists discussed…

India shares many development challenges with other countries, in particular regarding the energy transition and its environmental sustainability.…

The large cities of Indonesia and Malaysia are no exception to the trend or rising poor and massive shortage in affordable housing and public…

Policies promoting the digital economy and transformation of manufacturing must incorporate the social and ecological interests, including those of…

Smart factories and AI-augmented services have potential to cause massive disruption in the labour-intensive manufacturing and services sectors of…

Discussion paper based on a conference on "Intelligent Manufacturing and Work 4.0 - Challenges and perspectives in China, South East Asia and Germany.

What lies behind the looming crisis over the future of jobs and how might it might impact the politics of India in 2019?

Current perspectives and understanding of Industry 4.0 and its various areas of concern as well as first practical responses from different sectors.

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In this discussion paper, Dr. Rita Padawangi is contextualizing, reflecting and comparing the urban transformation of cities like Jakarta, Singapore…

The study uses case studies to analyze the impact of urban planning on mobility and housing in Vietnam.

Ride-share platforms have been causing conflict in recent years between workers using the platform and traditional drivers in Thailand’s second city…

New Delhi – A new methodology pursued by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in India has been applying a new narrative for alliance building to energy…

An urbanization that fails to produce just job opportunities will have far-reaching consequences.

Karachi (Pakistan) – In Pakistan as elsewhere, the search is on for a system of economic and political governance that ensures socially inclusive,…

New Delhi (India) – We must place inclusiveness at the centre stage of any discussion about the future of work and employment.

On the social democratic path to decent livelihoods and development in digital capitalism

Shanghai (China) – FES and partners in China continue the quest for new strategies to address the challenge of rapidly increasing urbanization and…

Jakarta (Indonesia) – The digital economy has consequences for both organized and informal labour, requiring steps by employers, the government and…

On the occasion of the International Workers’ Day, Christopher Ng of UNI Asia & Pacific with a call for an economy where the human and social…

Transformative Change Making (TCM) introduces a new method to create the societal buy-in needed to tackle such transformation crises.

Development experiences in a number of countries bear evidence that these countries are unable to come out of the middle-income status after having…

Dhaka (Bangladesh) – At a launch of a new study by FES and partners, experts discuss the Bangladesh transformative journey to avoid a middle-income…

The transformation of the Indian economy and the modernisation of the Indian state is essential if one million new job seekers a month are to be…

Seoul (Korea) – Experts from ten Asian countries lead the Economy of Tomorrow (EoT) regional project to the next phase. Amidst changing political…

The Economy of Tomorrow (EoT) project brings together Asian economic thinkers with their counterparts from Europe to explore three key questions.

Economic growth in Vietnam has been remarkable since the beginning of the comprehensive reform process in 1986. Yet, the question remains whether this…

Sampran (Thailand) – A policy community has been exploring alternative tax models, part of the Economy of Tomorrow project.

Since the early 1990s Indonesia has been a lower-middle income country that gained international recognition as an attractive emerging market for…