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While multilateral agencies have long invested along ESG lines, the first green bond in Kazakhstan and private equity demand in Uzbekistan show that it is going mainstream.

The rationale for the winners in India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan and Laos.

FinanceAsia’s weekly editorial highlights our unique capital markets news from the past week and places them in context of the bigger picture for the months ahead. We welcome your comments and criticisms. Enjoy the Easter break.

Kazakhstan's first offshore renminbi bond makes little financial sense but might go some way to repairing the suspicion built up of Belt and Road Initiatives in the country.

Timothy Bennett, CEO of the Astana International Exchange, talks to FinanceAsia about how his lessons learnt running the NZX will help get Kazakhstan's second stock exchange's engine running.

After notable silence, Kazakhstan looks set to push ahead with its privatisation programme in 2020. Although unlikely before the second quarter, investors and bankers see good reason its top three major state-owned entities will engage the markets.

We are setting out the rationale for the choices made in our Country Awards for India, Indonesia, Laos, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan and the Philippines.

All the winners from India, Indonesia, Laos, Kazakstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan and the Philippines.

FinanceAsia examines what China’s Belt and Road initiative has actually brought to the world last year. This is the sixth of our 10-part series.