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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.
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.
Philippine Central Bank Governor Details Financial Digitalization Pathway to Inclusive Recovery
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E. Diokno discussed emerging financial digitalization opportunities and the Philippine central bank’s plans for leveraging them to deliver a robust and inclusive COVID-19 recovery during an ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar. Sharing insights with ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe and a panel of experts, he described BSP’s pursuit of digital financial services breakthroughs and the implications for small business growth, jobs, and social protection. He also explained BSP’s efforts to boost digital infrastructure, risk mitigation, and digital financial literacy and skills, underscoring their importance for advancing financial inclusion that could support a stronger, more inclusive post-pandemic economy. View the webinar recording.
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- ESG investment for promoting net-zero carbon emissions
- Do persistent current account imbalances hamper regional and global growth?
- Transitioning to high-value agriculture through cluster-based development
- Revisiting green bond market development in Viet Nam
- Autonomous adaptation: Community approaches to coping with climate change
- Can closing borders shut out new COVID-19 strains?
- Achieving resilient emerging market economies amid the macroeconomic challenges of the 21st century
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
- 11th Asia-Pacific Financial Inclusion Forum: Emerging Priorities in the COVID-19 Era
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ADBI Opportunities
Books
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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.
Greater development of local currency bond markets helps to mitigate against capital flow volatility, while foreign investor participation has the opposite effect.
Local Currency Bond Markets, Foreign Investor Participation, and Capital Flow Volatility in Emerging Asia
COVID-19 has brought about long-lasting changes to the global economy.
Macroeconomic Impact of COVID-19 in Developing Asia
Vertical axis wind turbines are an indispensable type of wind energy technology, which have not yet been fully utilized.
Appropriate Technologies for Removing Barriers to the Expansion of Renewable Energy in Asia: Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
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
High-frequency data on digital payment and personal credit could be valuable input for predicting macroeconomic variables.
Forecasting Private Consumption with Digital Payment Data: A Mixed Frequency Analysis
Several challenges in transition economies of post-Soviet countries prevent them from reaping the potential benefits of digital transformation in the public sector.
Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Transformation in the Public Sector in Transition Economies: Examination of the Case of Uzbekistan
Underdeveloped capital markets tend to inhibit domestic resource mobilization for infrastructure investment.
Scaling Up Sustainable Investment through Blockchain-Based Project Bonds
Feed-in-tariffs have the greatest overall effect in Asia on driving private investment in renewable energy.
What Matters for Private Investment Financing in Renewable Energy Globally and in Asia?
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
