The Asian DevelopmentBank has launched the Asia Regional Integration Center (ARIC) website, a knowledge and information portal which facilitates the tracking of progress in the region’s accelerating economic cooperation and integration.

The new ARIC website supports the Asia and Pacific region’s efforts to promote regional cooperation and integration.

As per the ADB President, Haruhiko Kuroda, the ARIC website is a valuable tool for monitoring progress and understanding ongoing and planned regional initiatives.

ARIC provides an array of resources on RCI:
RCI programs and initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region,
a set of integration indicators to monitor progress in RCI,
a comprehensive database to track free trade agreements (FTAs) involving countries in the region, links to economic news, opinions and editorials, studies and research, and
ADB working papers on regional economic integration.

ARIC’s vast trove of information makes it a vital source for a wide variety of users, from major government and international agencies to the corporate sector, civil society groups, think-tanks, academic researchers and policy analysts, journalists, and economic commentators.