Internship Program

Typical Assignments

The project topics vary widely from year to year depending on ADB business needs. A sample of assignments in the past includes:

• Energy Sector Clean Coal Technologies Development trends in IGCC and CCS technologies and their relevance to PRC
• Best practices in higher education, and technical and vocational education.
• Economic growth in Asia: the cases of PRC and India.
• Low carbon growth strategies for Asia.
• Finance & Trade:
  1. Private Sector Finance;
  2. Secured Transactions/Finance Credit;
  3. Collateralization frameworks in selected DMCs;
  4. Removing barriers to collateralization;
  5. Workouts of ADB projects and other MDB invested projects.
• Evaluation of development impact of ADB's private sector operations in selected DMCs.
• Macroprudential Surveillance.
• Regional Cooperation and Integration.
• Capacity Development in Small Fragile States.
• Sector analysis and financial evaluation of private sector financing of infrastructure projects in Cambodia, such as port, energy transmission/generation or waste water treatment.
• Banking Sector Analysis by Country.
• Environmental monitoring effectiveness review.
• Evaluating the impacts of regional integration on poverty.
• Governance, finance, trade and SME development for environmentally sustainable economic growth (climate change).
• Community-based climate change and water resources in Nepal.
• New Trade Theory Meets Spatial Economics: Implications on Regional Cooperation and Poverty Alleviation in South Asia.
• Research in support of performance based allocation of Asian Development Fund.
• Private Sector Renewable Energy: Topic - Assessment of Wind Turbine Industry (for deliveries in Asia) availability of turbines (within and outside Asia), waiting times, current prices, reliability of units (various MW sizes), performance, status of new manufacturing plans in DMCs.
Contracting norms such as warranties, linked O&M support, performance guarantees.
• Private Sector Infrastructure: Topic - Facilitation of private sector participation in regional infrastructure projects to bridge PRC and Mongolia - issues and prospects.
• Public Private Partnership (PPP) Approach Impact.
• Review of the communities of practice and organizational performance in ADB
• Anticorruption - Communication strategy relating to fraud and corruption by International Financial Institutions.
• Evaluating consultations with indigenous peoples in ADB projects.
• Knowledge Product Development.