<p>&bull; The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the collapse of global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which fell 42 per cent from US$1.5 trillion in 2019 to an estimated U$$859 billion in 2020. The most recent ...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the cracks in the current health sector. From 2019 to 2020, investment in the health-care sector dropped by 45 per cent and continued to decline in 2021 to 34 per cent in the first ...

Commercial services trade in Asia and the Pacific continued to be dominated by a few economies, namely China, Japan, India, Singapore, Republic of Korea and Hong Kong, China accounting for over 70% of total trade in the ...

Global and regional merchandise trade have faced significant downward pressure throughout 2019 and 2020. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with increasing trade tensions and an already slowing global ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on trade in commercial services, turning it from weak growth in 2019 to a sharp contraction in 2020. Globally, commercial services trade value grew by only 2% in 2019. ...

Merchandise trade in Asia and the Pacific faced strong headwinds during 2018-2019. Some of the most prominent downside risks and uncertainties are the worldwide economic growth slowdown and the adverse impacts of the United ...