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Advisory Council Affirms ADBI Progress During Meeting at ADB
ADB President Takehiko Nakao opened the ADBI Advisory Council meeting at ADB in Manila on 16 September by commending ADBI on its successful chairing of the Think20 (T20), the G20’s policy research and advisory network, under the Japan’s G20 presidency. He called on ADBI to further strengthen its role as a global think tank leader to drive innovative solutions for advancing poverty elimination and sustainable growth in alignment with ADB Strategy 2030. ADBI Advisory Council members affirmed ADBI’s policy research and capacity building progress and offered strategic guidance. Among the priorities examined included regional macroeconomic trends and stability, gender equality, quality infrastructure, digitalization, and climate change.
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ADBI Highlights Community-Based Financing Solutions at Social Protection Week
Experts described ways to bridge financing gaps for social protection programs during an ADBI seminar on community-based financing held on 10 September 2019 as part of Asia Pacific Social Protection Week at ADB in Manila. ADBI Dean Naoyuki Yoshino explained that hometown investment trusts can be combined with community-based health insurance models to create sustainable financing schemes for health insurance provision. ADBI Senior Capacity Building and Training Economist Nella Hendriyetty moderated a second ADBI seminar at ADB on 11 September that examined macroeconomic challenges linked to aging populations and appropriate policy responses.
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ADBI-Hosted Forum Advances Inclusive Financial Systems
Senior officials and business leaders examined ways to broaden financial services access and use to drive poverty reduction and growth during the Asia-Pacific Financial Inclusion Forum at ADBI in Tokyo on 4-5 September 2019. Bank of Papua New Guinea Governor Loi Bakani and Mizuho Bank Chair Nobuhide Hayashi helped to promote greater public-private collaboration to address underserved communities, the role of digitalization, and changes in consumer behavior. ADBI Deputy Dean Chul Ju Kim also examined implementation strategies for realizing inclusive financial systems at the forum, co-hosted with the APEC Business Advisory Council, Foundation for Development Cooperation, and Banking with the Poor Network.
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ADBI-Gates Foundation Dialogue Tackles Sanitation Barriers
Business leaders detailed keys to accelerating sanitation access in Asia and the Pacific during an industry policy dialogue at ADBI in Tokyo on 30 August 2019, co-organized by ADBI and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ADBI Deputy Dean Chul Ju Kim opened the session by noting the importance of market-friendly sanitation policies to improved growth and living standards. Key recommendations included closer public-private coordination to reduce business barriers to decentralized wastewater treatment systems in underserved communities.
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ADBI-ADB Hosted Book Launch Spotlights Macroeconomic Stability Keys
Asia’s preparedness for future market shocks was examined at a launch event for the book Macroeconomic Shocks and Unconventional Monetary Policy: Impacts on Emerging Markets, co-organized by ADBI and ADB in Manila on 17 September 2019. The co-editors, ADBI Dean Naoyuki Yoshino, Bank of Thailand’s Pornpinun Chantapacdepong, and ADB Economist Matthias Helble, along with contributor and ADBI Advisory Council member Ulrich Volz, discussed the book’s insights on the evolution of the macroeconomic landscape, new instability concerns, and keys to mitigating future shocks in the region. Dean Yoshino led with remarks on the impact of Asia’s aging populations on fiscal and monetary policy effectiveness, and the urgent need for structural reform.
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ADBI drives infrastructure rates of returns, growth
ADBI experts on 17 September in Manila described strategies for bridging infrastructure investment gaps during a capacity building dialogue with policy makers from developing Asia Pacific economies and ADBI Advisory Council members. ADBI Dean Naoyuki Yoshino explained that reinvestment of spillover tax revenue fueled by green energy projects, and risk-reducing hometown investment trust funds, could raise rates of returns to attract private investment in local wind and solar power infrastructure. He added that land trusts can lower land acquisition costs and promote transport growth such as high-speed rail when combined with spillover investment.
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.
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