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Gender equality: Key to sustainable and inclusive growth
ADBI, the Korea Women's Development Institute (KWDI), and the Korea Labor Institute(KLI) organized a workshop to promote gender equality and women empowerment on 14-15 June in Seoul. Topics discussed included the gender gap and labor policies to promote women's participation in the workforce, the causes of low female income and fertility, work-life balance, and the role of training and education for closing the gender gap in various Asian countries. Read more.
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Create incentives to increase efficiency of state-owned enterprises in Kazakhstan
Dean Naoyuki Yoshino urged creating incentives such as a bonus system to increase efficiency and productivity of state-owned enterprises at a dinner meeting on 15 June in Astana Kazakistan, in parallel with the Astana Economic Forum. Dean Yoshino also introduced hometown investment trusts to finance start ups and fuel innovation.
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Kick-start private infrastructure with future tax-sharing bonds
Everybody is searching for ways to attract long-term private and institutional investors to pay for the huge and largely unmet demand for new highways, railways, bridges and dams. An infrastructure bond that can tap future tax revenues and share a fair proportion of the newly reaped revenue streams with the original investors could solve this problem say authors ADBI Dean Naoyuki Yoshino and ADBI Legal Advisor, Grant B. Stillman. Meet the “kicker” bond -- a new way to unlock future value for increasing present returns on investment. Read blog and watch the accompanying animation – ADBI's first in a new series.
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ADBI and ADB launch Asia Bond Monitor June 2017
The latest Asia Bond Monitor was launched on 23 June at ADBI at a conference co-organized by ADB and ADBI. ADB's Donghyun Park and Shu Tian led the launch, ADBI Dean Naoyuki Yoshino presented about the Japanese bond market, and Yuta Seki of the Nomura Institute of Capital Market Research gave a private sector view of Asian bond market developments. Read more and download book.
Events
- Asia Leadership Program 2017
- Financing of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Asia and the Pacific
- 2017 APEC Asia-Pacific Forum on Financial Inclusion
- Energy for the Future: The Second CAREC Energy Investment Forum and Astana EXPO-2017
- Green Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction in the Pacific Island Countries
Books
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Safeguarding the Rights of Asian Migrant Workers from Home to the Workplace
This book reviews recent regional migration trends, highlights the growing number of labor migrants in Asia and examines the policy question of how to best safeguard their rights.
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Mission Incomplete: Reflating Japan's Economy
In April 2013 the Bank of Japan launched an unprecedented quantitative and qualitative monetary easing policy. It was thought that a 2% price stability target could be achieved within 2 years; 4 years on and we are still mission incomplete.
Latest
Let's Build a Highway
How can governments build much needed roads without going into huge public debt? ADBI's first animated short explains a new budget-neutral way to attract private investors for infrastructure.
Children and potential children-in-law make individual decisions regarding the provision of eldercare. They respond to incentives: the more they can get paid for taking care of a needy parent-in-law the more they are likely to assist.
Modeling Eldercare by Children and Children-in-Law: The Role of Marriage Institutions
In 2011, the People’s Republic of China's economy started to decline, raising concerns that the country could suffer severe growth slowdown or fall into the middle-income trap.
The People’s Republic of China in the Middle-Income Trap?
Many Asian economies are facing rapidly aging populations, which will dramatically raise pension and other old-age-related spending.
Costs and Potential Funding of Expanded Public Pension Coverage in Asia
Most regional trade agreements now feature one or more measures for electronically exchanging trade-related data and information.
Digital Trade Facilitation: Paperless Trade in Regional Trade Agreements
Trans-Pacific Partnership members have successfully created a trade agreement with digital trade provisions that go beyond existing arrangements.
Trans-Pacific Partnership Rules for Digital Trade in Asia
