This report assesses the Bay Area’s economic and business ties with Southeast Asia. It focuses in particular on Singapore, which offers a unique platform for business in Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific area, and where many Bay Area companies have established major regional operations. In doing so, it looks at the distinctive synergies between the Bay Area and Singapore around technology, innovation, urban development, and other fields where priorities and capacities align.

Ghana is well placed to play a leading role in the development of regional and continental trade policy and create greater economic openness across Africa.

Cocoa has played a pivotal role in the economic development of Ghana. This report aims to explore the revenue management and producer pricing mechanism within Ghana’s cocoa sector.

Analysing Economic Openness and assessing its positive effects on prosperity is now a time sensitive task, with the benefits of globalisation and Economic Openness being questioned in the wake of the global financial crisis. We continue to see the impact of the crisis in public debate ten years on, with the rise of nationalism and populist politics in Indonesia, and across the world. As Joko Widodo starts his second term, his challenge is to continue improving the openness of Indonesia’s economy, paying particular attention to encouraging greater competition, both domestically and internationally, while maintaining enough broad-based political support for reform programmes.