The worst wave of the pandemic has just passed for most of the region. With vaccinations picking up pace, there are talks of shifting away from a “zero-COVID” target to adopting an “endemic” approach, where businesses resume operations and life can return to some semblance of normalcy. Watch the SIIA webinar highlights of Dr. Steven Cochrane, Chief APAC Economist at Moody’s Analytics and Ms. Chen Chen Lee, Associate Director and Senior Fellow at the SIIA as we discuss where ASEAN is at in terms of the pandemic.
This webinar also featured the SIIA’s newest report, “From Crisis to Endemic: Stumbling or Pressing Ahead?”, which examines how key ASEAN economies – Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam – are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic alongside key economic and political challenges. The four countries surveyed in this Special Report represent some 70 percent of the total ASEAN GDP.
