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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 receives first project award from private foundation
ADBI has received over $500,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct a pilot program on capacity building and training for sanitation and wastewater management. The project was awarded to ADBI by Brian Arbogast, Gates' director of the foundation’s water, sanitation and hygiene. This is the first time ADBI has entered into a contract award for a specific purpose with a major foundation.
Events
- Unlocking SME Finance and Making It Work in Central Asia
- 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
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.
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
With World Trade Organization negotiations in deadlock, countries are increasingly turning to preferential trade agreements to integrate their economies into the global trading system.
The Impact of the TPP on Trade Between Member Countries: A Text-As-Data Approach
