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Development Outlook in East Asia and Pacific

Explore the growth trends, risks, and long-term projections in East Asia and Pacific based on World Bank data. Learn about capital flows, commodity prices, demographic shifts, urbanization, poverty reduction, and challenges faced in the region.

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Development Outlook in East Asia and Pacific

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  1. Development Outlook in East Asia and Pacific Presentation at the Timor Leste & Development Partners Meeting June 19, 2013 Bert Hofman, World Bank Group

  2. The short run

  3. Global growth is picking up Quarterly GDP growth, annualized Source: World Bank.

  4. East Asia and Pacific Continues to Outpace Others Annual GDP growth, % Source: World Bank, Global Economic Prospects 2013B.

  5. Short Term Risks Old Ones are Fading • Eurozone • Fiscal Cliff New Ones Emerging • Strong capital flows and asset bubbles • Impact of Abenomics • Quantitative Easing Phase Out • China slowdown and Commodity Prices

  6. Capital flows to developing countries have rebounded Gross international capital flows to developing countries, billions USD Source: World Bank, Dealogic.

  7. Industrial commodity prices are easing due to new supply USD price indexes, January 2005=100 Source: World Bank Global Economic Prospects 2013.

  8. Global commodity supply is responding to resource investments Billions USD Billions USD Source: World Bank, Bloomberg.

  9. Will shale gas come to Asia? United States Energy Prices 2000-2012

  10. The long run

  11. A Changing World Developing countries share of global GDP (PPP, Constant 2005 International $) Developing countries’ contribution to global GDP growth (PPP, Constant 2005 International $) World Growth (Source: WB, World Development Indicators)

  12. East Asia and Pacific most rapidly urbanizing Source: World Urbanization prospects, 2009 revision. United Nations Population Division 2010.

  13. Getting older…. Age categories 200000 150000 100000 50000 0 50000 100000 150000 200000 Mln. people Source: United Nations Population Division 2010.

  14. Only Timor Leste Not Aging for a Long Time to Come TLS

  15. Increasingly Middle Income Source: WDI

  16. And Middle Class Projections of people living on $10-$50 per day 2005-2030 Source: Bussolo and Murard (2011).

  17. Still lots of poor Source: World Development Indicators Note: Absolute poverty is $1.25 per day

  18. Far to grow Source: WDI

  19. Structural Change key for Rapid Rise in Labor Productivity productivity growth 1999-2008 Source: World Bank: At Work in East Asia and Pacific, forthcoming 2013

  20. Countries are increasingly tied into supply chains Value Added in China’s Export Supply Chain (2004) Source: IMF ((2011) China Spillover Report, as Adapted from Koopman et al. (2010), "Give Credit Where Credit is Due: Tracing Value Added in Global Production Chains," NBER WP 16426 Note: DVA refers to Domestic Value Added, while FVA refers to intermediate Foreign Value Added.

  21. The Challenge of Distance Marshall Islands Kiribati Solomon Islands Tuvalu Vanuatu Fiji Tonga

  22. Few middle income economies became rich, but many of those are in EAP(Per capita income relative to the United States, 1960 and 2008) Source: World Bank and Development Research Center 2012, China 2030

  23. China Rising, and Changing

  24. The Challenge of Social cohesion

  25. Poverty has fallen dramatically (Poverty headcount at $2/day)

  26. The pace of poverty reduction is slowing Reduction in number of people living on less than US$2 a day, in millions

  27. Inequality on the rise

  28. High Share of Vulnerable Employment Own account and unpaid family workers as a share of the labor force, 2010

  29. Youth unemployment high in some places, notably the Pacific Source: World Bank: At Work in East Asia and Pacific, forthcoming 2013

  30. Underutilized Women in Some Places TLS

  31. Growth has created jobs, although less in EAP than in some other regionsLong-term employment elasticity to GDP growth Source: Crivelli, E., D. Furceri and J.Toujas-Bernate (2012)

  32. Small and Medium Enterprises Create most jobs

  33. New Businesses Create Lots of Jobs Employment Creation 2006-10 by age of the firm as share of total employment change

  34. Not always easy doing business Source: World Bank Doing Business Report

  35. Summing Up • East Asia and Pacific is likely to grow rapidly for a considerable time to come • It is likely to become a rapidly growing market for final consumption • Demographics and a rising China offers opportunities for young countries • Connectivity, business environment and human capital key to success in a changing world

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