Asia Pacific

Infrastructure is the main bottleneck preventing 7%-plus growth in Indonesia, the country’s finance minister said

Asian infrastructure investment has been largely state-driven for much of the past decade. For the private sector to help plug the vast funding gap, governments will have to do more than beg

G20 chair Christine Lagarde’s charm offensive in Hanoi has won her significant Asian support were she to bid for the top job at the IMF, influential sources suggested to Emerging Markets

Laos could join the WTO as early as 2012, finance minister Somdy Douangdy told Emerging Markets

India's finance minister warned that unsustainably high fuel costs could slow India's GDP growth to 8% this year

Pakistan is moving closer to launching a $1 billion offshore exchangeable bond, a move that would mark its return to international capital markets for the first time since July 2007

Almost three-quarters of Philippines government borrowing will be sourced from local markets in 2011, a senior official told Emerging Markets

South-east Asia has struggled for years to recapture its heady pre-1997 dynamism. But as nations look to rebalance their economies, the hope is that the region might once again surge

This summer’s elections could finally settle the issue of the legitimacy of prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s government or that of his predecessor Thaksin Shinawatra

The popularity of government measures to broaden social security will be key to its chances of re-election in July, according to a senior Thai finance official

A central question facing the global economy is whether today’s fast-growing emerging economies can maintain their levels of output, especially as the West continues to languish. Trade between developing countries is increasingly seen as a solution – but actions will first have to match up to rhetoric

Leading regional figures have warned that income inequality could lead to social instability and disrupt Asia's growth