VIENTIANE -- A new economic order will emerge by 2030, with Southeast Asia taking on a central role, Laotian Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith told business leaders in his nation's capital on Monday.
"Studies have shown that the ASEAN economy is expected to grow at 7% per annum, with a GDP reaching $4.7 trillion in 2020, and the possibility of becoming the fourth-largest economy in the world by 2030," Thongloun said in his opening remarks for the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (ABIS) 2016, of which the Nikkei Asian Review is a strategic media partner.
