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ADBI-ASEAN Explore Creative Economy’s Sustainable Development Role
Amid the United Nations International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development, experts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region shared insights and best practices for advancing creative industries and mitigating COVID-19 challenges within the sector during an ASEAN-ADBI webinar on 20 April. They focused on the design of policy frameworks that could maximize the creative economy’s potential to promote sustainable development. Their recommendations included greater adoption of digitalization, talent nurturing, crisis period financing provision, and domestic and international partnerships. View the webinar recording.
ADBI-OECD-ILO Report Assesses COVID-19 Impacts on Asia’s Labor Migration Landscape
A new report by ADBI, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and International Labour Organization (ILO) details how COVID-19 has changed Asia’s labor migration landscape. Labor Migration in Asia: Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis and the Post-Pandemic Future provides new labor migration data and gauges COVID-19’s labor mobility and policy implications. It also assesses medium- and long-term factors to shape migration in Asia, digitalization’s role in enabling effective migration management, and ways to adapt measures to build back better in the post-pandemic future. Download the report, view the summary video, and register for the launch webinar.
Webinar Registration: BSP Governor Diokno on Financial Digitalization and Inclusive COVID-19 Recovery
Registration is open for an ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar on 21 April 2021 with Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E. Diokno, who will discuss financial digitalization and inclusive COVID-19 recovery strategy with ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe and a panel of experts. Governor Diokno will describe the Philippine central bank’s roadmap for overcoming pandemic shocks and building a stronger, more technologically advanced, and more inclusive economy. The discussion will be followed by an audience question and answer session. Register for the webinar.
ADBI Advisory Council Commends Institute’s Adaptability, Recovery Focus
ADBI Advisory Council (AC) members praised ADBI’s adaptability and timely efforts to promote sustainable and inclusive COVID-19 recovery in Asia and the Pacific during their virtual meeting on 8 April. AC members expressed support for ADBI’s strategic direction under Dean Tetsushi Sonobe and shared ideas for further enhancing ADBI’s research, capacity building, outreach, and synergy with ADB, amid the pandemic and beyond. They considered ADBI’s recent operations and work program, and the positive findings of a new results survey of ADBI stakeholders, administered in coordination with ADB.
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Events
- ADBI-OECD-ILO Report Launch: Labor Migration in Asia: Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis and the Post-Pandemic Future
- ADBI Webinar on Climate Change and Sovereign Risk (54th ADB Annual Meeting Seminar Series)
- ADBI-Stanford University Virtual Workshop on Electricity Markets in a High-Renewables World
- ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar: Greg Marsden on COVID-19 Era Travel Behavior and its Policy Implications in the United Kingdom
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Labor Migration in Asia: Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis and the Post-Pandemic Future
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on economies, businesses, and workers, and in Asia and many other regions, migrant workers have been among the most affected.
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Developing Infrastructure in Central Asia: Impacts and Financing Mechanisms
Infrastructure development can give Central Asian economies an important boost for maintaining growth momentum, eradicating poverty, and addressing climate change.
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REGISTRATION: ADBI-OECD-ILO to Discuss New Report on COVID-19 and Labor Migration
Registration is open for a webinar to feature insights from a new report by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and International Labour Organization (ILO) that details how COVID-19...
Labor Migration in Asia: Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis and the Post-Pandemic Future
Labor Migration in Asia: Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis and the Post-Pandemic Future analyzes labor migration trends in Asia and puts them in the context of economic and policy developments and the changes wrought by the pandemic.
REGISTRATION: BSP Governor Benjamin E. Diokno on Financial Digitalization and Inclusive COVID-19 Recovery
Registration is open for an ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar with Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin Diokno, who will discuss digitalization and inclusive COVID-19 recovery strategy with ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe and a panel of experts.
Enhancing SME Participation in Global Value Chains
Greater small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) trade through global value chains could boost inclusive growth in Asia, as illustrated by this snapshot of insights from the ADBI Press book Enhancing SME Participation in Global Value Chains.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on economies, businesses, and workers, and in Asia and many other regions, migrant workers have been among the most affected. Labor Migration in Asia: Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis and the Post-Pandemic Future
Achieving high productivity enables firms to participate in global value chains (GVCs), and their participation in GVCs in turn increases their productivity.
Does GVC Participation Improve Firm Productivity? A Study of Three Developing Asian Countries
An all-inclusive financial system is one of the channels through which information and communication technology affects economic growth.
Digital Financial Inclusion, Economic Freedom, Financial Development, and Growth: Implications from a Panel Data Analysis
The internet and mobile density have significant positive impacts on the economic growth of India and the People's Republic of China.
Digitalization and Economic Performance of Two Fast-Growing Asian Economies: India and the People’s Republic of China
An integrated inclusion of digital finance by the emerging Asian banks ensures inclusive and sustainable economic development.
Is Digital Financial Inclusion Good for Bank Stability and Sustainable Economic Development? Evidence from Emerging Asia
Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are diverse, but the severity of the pandemic’s impact on them varies considerably depending on their characteristics.
The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Asia and Their Digitalization Responses
Anthropogenic activities are affecting coastal erosion in Sri Lanka more than natural or global scenarios.
Are Coastal Protective Hard Structures Still Applicable with Respect to Shoreline Changes in Sri Lanka?
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the reality that governments can move quickly and do the unthinkable.
Building Forward Better: Enhancing Resilience of Asia and Pacific Economies in a Post-COVID-19 World
Videos
- Labor Migration in Asia: Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis and the Post-Pandemic Future
- Developing Infrastructure in Central Asia: Impacts and Financing Mechanisms
- Enhancing SME Participation in Global Value Chains: Determinants, Challenges, and Policy Recommendations
- Spotlight on Japan’s “Johkasou” Sanitation System: A Model for Asia
- ADBI E-Learning Course on Governing Sustainable Finance
- T20 Italy 2021 Inception Conference Remarks by ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe
Podcast
- How latrines can promote girls’ education
- How landlocked Central Asia could become a post-pandemic infrastructure financing leader
- How Asia can boost mask production and reignite its SME growth engine through trade
- Asia could lay the groundwork for a post-pandemic infrastructure boom through fairer land use
- Central Asia could be a model for advancing SME trade and inclusive recovery
- MSME digitalization could be the ticket to a speedy Asian recovery in 2021
