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The World Bank In East Asia Pacific

The COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges are having an impact on developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP)’s economic recovery. Despite these challenges, EAP economies have shown resilience to the pandemic and more recent shocks.

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Reviving Growth: East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, April 2023

Economic performance across the region, while robust, could be held back this year by slowing global growth, elevated commodity prices.
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International Women's Day 2023

Meet some extraordinary women leaders across East Asia and the Pacific, who are all working to accelerate equality.
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‘You can hear it in their voices’: employment program delivering much more than jobs in Solomon Islands

Learn how the Community Access and Urban Enhancement Project (CAUSE) is helping improve the lives of nearly 20,000 people in the country.

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East Asia Pacific At-A-Glance

The region has expanded vaccination coverage rapidly after a slow start, allowing for most economies to reopen. An unfinished development and growth agenda remains for developing EAP, a region with a population of over 2.1 billion.

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Enterprising Women: Toward Equal Business Opportunity in Southeast Asia

This report explores gender differences in entrepreneurship for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME) in Southeast Asia.

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Manuela V. Ferro

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Chief Economist, East Asia and Pacific

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Results in East Asia and the Pacific

Take a look at the results the World Bank-supported projects have achieved in the region.
Blog: East Asia and Pacific on the Rise

Join the conversation on important development challenges facing the East Asia and Pacific region.
Poverty & Equity Data

Is there more or less inequality in your country now than 10 years ago? Did poverty go up or down? Our data portal has the answers.
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The World Bank provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in East Asia and Pacific countries and around the globe.

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Marilene Montemayor

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