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Healthy economies need a healthy Mother Earth

Connecting economic growth to environmental sustainability in Asean is a business imperative. Attention must be paid to the planet's failing health if Asean's potential is to be realised.

Published Wed, Nov 1, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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THE economic future of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) region looks bright. In recent years, the grouping has been growing by around 5 per cent a year, and the Asian Development Bank estimates that by 2030, nearly half a billion of Asean's population will be considered middle class. New International Monetary Fund (IMF) projections put the region on track to becoming the fourth largest economy in the world by 2050.

It would be difficult to find a business today that doe…