The eighth Horasis Asia Meeting took place over 3-4th December in Bình Duong, Vietnam co-hosted by Binh Duong Province and Becamex IDC. The Horasis Asia Meeting has become the foremost annual meeting for Asia Pacific business leaders and their global counter-parts. The event offers businesses and government officials a platform to discuss a wide range of issues related to the economy. The meeting assembled over 600 delegates from government, businesses and civil society world-wide.\
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its disruption in direct costs and indirect costs which generally have resulted in much higher national debts. Further geopolitical faults has also led to sharply increasing costs on many nations, changes in resources distribution like food and fuels and logistics chains; and an increase in global uncertainty and stock-market volatility.
While the COVID epidemic forced a digital delivery mode in 2020 and 2021, the location of the meetings has rotated annually and has been held in Bangkok, Thailand (2016), Kolkata, India (2017) and Bình Duong New City, Vietnam (2018, 2019) and Kitakyushu, Japan (2022). Its focus remains upon Asia presenting a systemic view of activities affecting the drivers of Asia’s economic success and how Asian businesses interact regionally and globally.