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ADBI Promotes Secure Financial Consumer Growth in Indonesia
ADBI experts highlighted policies to strengthen financial inclusion, financial literacy, and consumer protection at the Global Forum for Financial Consumers in Yogyakarta on 19-20 August 2019. ADBI Dean Naoyuki Yoshino examined sustainable debt ceilings for consumers, while ADBI Vice Chair of Research Peter Morgan described the impacts of financial literacy on savings and financial inclusion in the Lao PDR. Indonesia Financial Services Authority Board of Commissioners Chair Dr Wimboh Santosa delivered keynote remarks at the forum co-hosted by ADBI, Gadjah Mada University, and SKK University.
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ADBI Fosters Philippine Credit Risk Database
ADBI and the Credit Risk Database Association are jointly guiding the Philippine central bank’s establishment of a new credit risk database to better gauge the creditworthiness of small businesses and improve their financing access. The move will allow small firms to sidestep banks’ steep collateral requirements which an ADBI report notes could significantly open funding for the sector that in the Philippines accounts for 99.6% of all businesses and 61.6% of jobs but only 9.2% of total business loans and 3.32% of GDP.
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ADBI Dean Advises APEC on Accelerating Quality Infrastructure
ADBI Dean Naoyuki Yoshino shared tips on financing infrastructure conducive to local development and income equality at a meeting of APEC member economy officials in Santiago, Chile on 13-14 August 2019. Dean Yoshino recommended hometown investment trust funds to open credit to small firms alongside new infrastructure and re-investing the higher tax revenues into new private-led projects.
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How Prepared is Asia for the Next Big Market Shock?
The new ADBI-led book Macroeconomic Shocks and Unconventional Monetary Policy: Impacts on Emerging Markets examines the effects of Asia’s response to unconventional monetary policies following the global financial crisis. It assesses how subsequent central bank moves have reshaped the macroeconomic landscape, new instability concerns, and keys to mitigating future shocks in the region. The book features monetary, exchange rate, trade, and macro prudential insights of experts from ADBI and other preeminent institutions like the IMF and Bank for International Settlements.
Events
- Business Leaders’ Policy Dialogue on Accelerating Sanitation for All
- 2019 Asia-Pacific Financial Inclusion Forum - The Inclusion Imperative II: Creating a Transitional Inclusive Finance System
- Seminar on the People’s Republic of China’s Transport Infrastructure Development and Quality of Life
- Conference on Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment: Opportunities and Risks for Asia
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
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The Growth of Carbon Markets in Asia: The Potential Challenges for Future Development
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Strategy, Independence, and Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in Asia
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Shocks stemming from the global financial crisis have had wide-reaching effects on macroeconomic financial stability in emerging Asia. Macroeconomic Shocks and Unconventional Monetary Policy: Impacts on Emerging Markets
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Videos
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- Cryptocurrency in emerging Asia
- Leveraging Services for Development: Prospects and Policies
Podcast
- Republic of Korea needs green finance to meet climate change commitments
- Spillover taxes could help boost green energy projects in Asia
- Singapore started well but more is needed to become a green finance hub
- The effect of services needs to be updated in economic activity data to avoid bad decisions
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