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ADBI-Gates Foundation Dialogue Tackles Sanitation Barriers
Business leaders detailed keys to accelerating sanitation access in Asia and the Pacific during an industry policy dialogue at ADBI in Tokyo on 30 August 2019, co-organized by ADBI and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ADBI Deputy Dean Chul Ju Kim opened the session by noting the importance of market-friendly sanitation policies to improved growth and living standards. Key recommendations included closer public-private coordination to reduce business barriers to decentralized wastewater treatment systems in underserved communities.
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Think-Asia Hits Open Access Research Milestone
Think-Asia.org, the economic research repository led by ADBI and the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, now offers more than 10,000 open access publications from ADBI and 24 other leading think tanks in the region. Users have already downloaded more than one million books, reports, and other knowledge products from the curated site, which provides an easy to use, one-stop-shop for cutting-edge research from top Asia Pacific experts.
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ADBI Highlights Community-Based Financing Solutions at Social Protection Week
Experts described ways to bridge financing gaps for social protection programs during an ADBI seminar on community-based financing held on 10 September 2019 as part of Asia Pacific Social Protection Week at ADB in Manila. ADBI Dean Naoyuki Yoshino explained that hometown investment trusts can be combined with community-based health insurance models to create sustainable financing schemes for health insurance provision. ADBI Senior Capacity Building and Training Economist Nella Hendriyetty moderated a second ADBI seminar at ADB on 11 September that examined macroeconomic challenges linked to aging populations and appropriate policy responses.
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ADBI-Hosted Forum Advances Inclusive Financial Systems
Senior officials and business leaders examined ways to broaden financial services access and use to drive poverty reduction and growth during the Asia-Pacific Financial Inclusion Forum at ADBI in Tokyo on 4-5 September 2019. Bank of Papua New Guinea Governor Loi Bakani and Mizuho Bank Chair Nobuhide Hayashi helped to promote greater public-private collaboration to address underserved communities, the role of digitalization, and changes in consumer behavior. ADBI Deputy Dean Chul Ju Kim also examined implementation strategies for realizing inclusive financial systems at the forum, co-hosted with the APEC Business Advisory Council, Foundation for Development Cooperation, and Banking with the Poor Network.
Events
- Policy Dialogue on How to Increase Rates of Return in Asia: Capital Flows, Infrastructure Investment, and the Role of the Financial Cycle
- Seminar on Infrastructure Investment and International Development
- Workshop on Reforming State-Owned Enterprises in Central Asia
- Macroeconomic Stabilization in the Digital Age
Books
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Macroeconomic Shocks and Unconventional Monetary Policy: Impacts on Emerging Markets
Shocks stemming from the global financial crisis have had wide-reaching effects on macroeconomic financial stability in emerging Asia.
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Handbook of Green Finance: Energy Security and Sustainable Development
This handbook is the first to explain ways to finance green projects for implementing the SDGs in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Latest
Chul Ju Kim, ADBI Deputy Dean on Development Capacity Building
ADBI Deputy Dean Chul Ju Kim describes his role in leading ADBI’s capacity building initiatives for developing economies in Asia and the Pacific, and what he finds most satisfying about the job.
KE Seetha Ram, Senior Consulting Specialist for Capacity Building and Training Projects on Advancing Sustainable Development
ADBI Senior Consulting Specialist for Capacity Building and Training Projects KE Seetha Ram explains his work to promote quality infrastructure growth and sanitation access in developing Asia Pacific economies.
Due to misallocation of resources and inefficiencies, state-owned enterprises continue to pose a challenge to the economy of Viet Nam.
Reform of State-Owned Enterprises in Viet Nam to Increase Performance and Profit
The intention to invest via peer-to-peer lending is mainly influenced or driven by trust.
Factors Affecting Investors’ Intention to Invest in a Peer-to-Peer Lending Platform in Malaysia: An Extended Technology Acceptance Model
Small and medium-sized enterprises have the greatest potential for forming a middle class.
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Finance in Uzbekistan: Challenges and Opportunities
An increase in private investment in water supply and inland water will expand services to a much larger area than if the government alone were to provide finance.
Inducing Private Finance to Water Supply and Inland Water Transport Using Spillover Tax Revenues
Videos
- Financial Inclusion, Regulation, Literacy, and Education in Central Asia and South Caucasus
- Building Partnerships for Effectively Managing Labor Migration: Lessons from Asian Countries
- The upgraded ASEAN-People’s Republic of China Free Trade Agreement could matter, big time
- Cryptocurrency in emerging Asia
- Leveraging Services for Development: Prospects and Policies
Podcast
- Where are Asia’s migration trends and attitudes headed?
- How to thread the economic and political needle on Asian infrastructure growth
- How resilient is Southeast Asia in weathering economic volatility?
- Republic of Korea needs green finance to meet climate change commitments
- Spillover taxes could help boost green energy projects in Asia
