Economy

Information and news about the economy of Asia.

As recently as 2008, the economies of Southeast Asia received roughly less than half as much foreign direct investment as China did. Four years later, in 2012, they pulled to within spitting distance ($111 billion versus $121 billion).

Asia is the largest and most populous continent in the world. It has the second largest nominal GDP of all continents.

ADB's Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2015 projects that Developing Asia will grow at a steady 6.3% in 2015 and 2016, supported by a strengthening recovery in the major industrial economies and soft global commodity prices.

FOR years, Japan was Asia's richest and most powerful economy. It was the first Asian economy to industrialise, and the emerging Asian tigers - Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and later China - merely followed in its tracks. Now, however, Japan is steadily being overtaken.

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Resilient growth in China promises to have sustained growth.

In the wake of a turbulent few weeks on the Chinese stock market, where do Asian economies stand?

Asia, with 4.2 billion inhabitants, has more than 60% of the world population. Europe has served as a growth market. Asia is the new mega growth market. Many US and European citizens still do not realize that by 2015 the world's largest free trade zone with 3.2 billion people will be a reality.

The world's economic center of gravity is shifting eastward and southward to a new set of high-growth cities. Our recent report mapped the economic performance of the 100 largest metro economies in the Asia-Pacific region - the stretch of countries from East Asia to Oceania to the western parts of North and South America. Here are five facts about cities in the region powering world growth.

Discover the latest and breaking Asia Economy news from The Wall Street Journal.

Wikipedia's information about the economy of Asia.