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Expert Describes Keys to Private Infrastructure Investment Growth
Columbia University urban planning expert Wu Weiping examined private urban infrastructure investment in the People’s Republic of China and other emerging economies during an ADBI Distinguished Speaker Series webinar on 31 July. Wu assessed private financing across the energy, telecom, transport, and water and sewage sectors. She detailed gaps in infrastructure demand relative to private investment and risks related to increasing non-performing loans and unpredictable regulation which can deter private infrastructure investment. Policies that can address these challenges and improve transparency could boost private financing, Wu concluded.
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ADBI-ADB-KDI Sign MOU to Promote Post-Pandemic Sustainability
ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe, ADB Vice President Bambang Susantono, and Korea Development Institute (KDI) President Jeong Pyo Choi virtually signed a memorandum of understanding on 30 July to strengthen collaboration in support of sustainable growth in Asia and the Pacific. Dean Sonobe stressed the importance of jointly identifying and sharing development solutions that can reinvigorate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, stalled by COVID-19. The MOU enables tripartite research and capacity building for the region through 2025 in the areas of gender and equity, governance and institutional capacity, the financial sector, public-private partnerships, social protection, infrastructure and urban development, and youth engagement.
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ADBI Dean Examines Developing Asia’s Recovery Path
ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe detailed post-COVID-19 priorities for the economy and livelihoods in developing Asia during a Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development webinar on 29 July. Dean Sonobe noted the importance of fostering a recovery that advances social protection and the Sustainable Development Goals. He pointed to ADBI survey-based research underway on COVID-19 impacts on the region’s SMEs and households to help guide policy responses. Strong leadership and international coordination to build more inclusive, risk-ready digital economies will be key to ensuring socioeconomic resilience in the post-pandemic world, Dean Sonobe added.
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ADBI-Chiang Mai University Spotlight Poverty Reduction Next Steps
Ways to reduce poverty and advance inclusive and sustainable growth amid the COVID-19 pandemic were discussed during the 9th International Conference on Asia Economic Development on 21-22 July, co-hosted by ADBI and Chiang Mai University (CMU) to move toward the Sustainable Development Goals. ADBI and CMU experts, together with policy makers and representatives from ADB, UNDP, and the World Bank, called for prompt fiscal stimulus and greater efforts to boost economic equality and social protection. They also reaffirmed the importance of open economic systems and the role digitalization for promoting financial inclusion and post-COVID-19 adjustment.
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Growing Central Bank Challenges in the World and Japan: Low Inflation, Monetary Policy, and Digital Currency
Central banks are facing a range of growing challenges that have arisen from recent trends in aging populations, low productivity, and new technology and innovation.
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Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment: Opportunities and Risks for Asia
Interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment has been growing steadily around the world, and investors are increasingly integrating ESG factors into their investment decisions.
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Does a shortage of safe assets sow the seeds of instability in a financial system?
The Nexus of Safe Asset Shortage, Credit Growth, and Financial Instability
Infrastructure investments may boost public revenues.
Public–Private Partnerships in Georgia and Impact Assessment of Infrastructure
The size of the blue economy has responded positively to sustainable ocean management policies.
Drivers of Blue Economy in Asia and Pacific Island Countries: An Empirical Investigation of Tourism and Fisheries Sectors
Introducing ADBI E-Learning’s Course on Demographic Transition and its Impacts
The ADBI E-Learning course Demographic Transition and its Impacts examines aging population trends and socio-economic challenges, and offers policy recommendations, against the backdrop of uncertainty.New ADBI E-Learning Course Spotlights Demographic Transition Outlook
A new tuition-free, certificate-issuing ADBI E-Learning course examines rapid demographic change and its implications for economies and policy making in Asia and the Pacific and beyond, against the backdrop of COVID-19 and rising uncertainty.ADBI Dean Urges Global Support for Digitalization-Based Recovery
Capitalizing on the accelerating digital transformation of economies in the COVID-19 era will be key to boosting crisis recovery, according to recommendations from ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe.
Vulnerability to the direct effects of climate change matter more than climate risk resilience in the implications for sovereign borrowing costs.
Feeling the Heat: Climate Risks and the Cost of Sovereign Borrowing
The construction of the Khorgos–Zhetygen railway has a significant and economically growing impact on tax revenues and regional GDP.
Measuring Impacts and Financing Infrastructure in Kazakhstan
While the ultimate resolution of COVID-19 may lead to a market correction as uncertainty declines, there may be some permanent effects on financial markets and capital flows.
Financial Market and Capital Flow Dynamics During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Blue finance is critical to ensure sustainability and conservation of the marine ecosystem and resources aligned with economic growth.
Proposing Regulatory-Driven Blue Finance Mechanism for Blue Economy Development
Small businesses are considered one of the sources for innovation, productivity, and dynamism in many countries.
Leveraging Islamic Banking and Finance for Small Business: Exploring the Conceptual and Practical Dimensions
Behind rapid infrastructure growth in the People’s Republic of China lie risks of a massive and rapid buildup of infrastructure financing.
Managing the Risks of Public Infrastructure Financing: Toward Sustainability
Videos
- Introducing ADBI E-Learning’s Course on Demographic Transition and its Impacts
- Introducing the Book Growing Central Bank Challenges in the World and Japan: Low Inflation, Monetary Policy, and Digital Currency
- Introducing the Book Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment: Opportunities and Risks for Asia
- Introducing ADBI E-Learning’s Course on Powering Green Investments
- ADBI-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Renew Sanitation Partnership
- ADBI Dean Sonobe on Enabling Asia’s COVID-19 Recovery
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- Could AI be the answer to Asia’s mounting education delivery challenges?
- How can digitalization deliver a pandemic soft landing for Asian economies?
- Addressing new challenges for financial inclusion amid a disruptive double whammy
- How can smartphone data promote pandemic recovery?
- How far will Asia’s investors turn to ESG investment?
- The time is now for Asian green investments and an incentivized private sector
- Behavioral insights can support the transition to a post-COVID-19 world
