Golden rice terraces on a hillside in Sapa, northern Vietnam

Mekong Advisory

Independent economic counsel for the Mekong economies.

Rigorous, transparent analysis of Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar — the mainland economies most analysts treat as a footnote to "ASEAN."

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Why the Mekong

Most economic advice on Southeast Asia is written from 30,000 feet. A single "ASEAN outlook" flattens ten very different economies into one slide, and the mainland — where supply chains are actually relocating, where monetary policy is genuinely diverging, where the next decade of growth is being negotiated — gets a paragraph.

We do the opposite. Mekong Advisory is built around the Greater Mekong Subregion and nothing else. That focus is the product: we know which numbers to trust, which to question, and what they mean for a decision you have to make this quarter.

Why a Specialist

Depth over coverage

We turn down work outside the mainland. What we keep, we know cold — the data sources, the institutions, the recurring distortions, the local context behind the headline figure.

Method you can audit

Every conclusion traces back to a number and a source. We pair classical econometrics with AI-assisted research to move faster, but the reasoning is always inspectable. No black boxes, no "the model says so."

Independent by design

We hold no positions and sell no deals. Our only product is the analysis. That's what independence is supposed to mean, and it's increasingly rare.

The Region

The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is a recognized economic geography — Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, the five economies bound together by the Mekong river system, shared infrastructure corridors, and deepening trade integration. It is where China's southern trade meets maritime Southeast Asia, where nearshoring is landing, and where five central banks are charting visibly different courses. We treat it as one coherent subject because, economically, it increasingly is.