PAFTAD is the leading economic policy conference in the region and has held conferences every year or two since its inception in 1968. These conferences have made an important contribution to policy thinking and policy development in the Asia Pacific region for over forty years. The topic of 37^th PAFTAD conference is: Asia and the Middle-Income Trap. The sub-topic of sessions are including: the definition of the middle-income trap; resilience and the middle-income trap; case studies including China, India and Indonesia; how to escaping the middle-income trap.