This publication evolved from the Southeast Asian Economic Outlook. Beginning with the first release of the June 2016 Update, the Outlook has become a biannual publication, with the main report released in the fall and its update released the following spring. The Outlook project was officially launched in 2010 and each edition is regularly presented at the occasion of the ASEAN/East Asia Summit. It was included in the OECD’s Southeast Asia Regional Programme (SEARP) at the Steering Group Meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia in March 2015, with its role of providing a horizontal view of activities, identifying emerging trends in the region and providing a backbone for the different streams of the Programme confirmed at the 2015 MCM.