Sustainable trade in Asia

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The EIU produced the 2018 Sustainable Trade Index that measures the capacity of 20 economies - 19 in Asia and the US - to participate in participate in global trade in a way that creates sustainable growth, encourage foreign direct investment and attracts funding and support from multilateral agencies. The 2018 index shows that countries in Asia have broadly regressed in terms of trade sustainability as compared to 2016.

Weekly Digest   Issue #26         The Hinrich Foundation Sustainable Trade Index 2018   Commissioned by the Hinrich Foundation, the EIU produced the 2018 Sustainable Trade Index, which measures the capacity of 20 economies—19 in Asia, and the US—to participate in global trade in a way that creates sustainable growth, encourages foreign direct investment, and attracts funding and support from multilateral agencies. The 2018 index shows that countries in Asia have broadly regressed in terms of trade sustainability compared with 2016.   READ REPORT HERE →

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