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Summit Charts Governance Pathways to Sustainable Digitalization
Regulators and researchers explored innovative governance reforms for promoting sustainable, digitally-based post-COVID-19 recovery in Asia during a virtual summit on 20 October, co-organized by ADBI, the Financial Services Authority of Indonesia, and South East Asian Central Banks Research and Training Center. They urged a holistic, adaptive, and visionary approach to leadership and policymaking to minimize the economic and financial risks of accelerating digitization amid the pandemic. They also highlighted the importance of knowledge and skills development to mitigate the digital divide, ease the transition to new business models, and strengthen social protections.
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ADBI-Chubu University Spotlight Quality Transport Infrastructure Imperatives
Experts presented new research on the spillover effects of transportation projects on economies, the environment, and societies during a week-long ADBI-Chubu University virtual conference that concluded on 16 October. They discussed approaches to transport infrastructure development that can enhance quality of life and how greater quality transport could boost sustainable development, with a focus on high-speed rail (HSR) growth. They also examined transport sector pandemic responses in Asia and the Pacific and ways to mitigate COVID-19’s impacts on mobility and supply chains. An ADBI policy note on deriving policies from land use-transport interactions for sustainable HSR development in the region was highlighted during the closing session.
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Experts Examine Increasing Demographic Transition Challenges in Asia and Europe
Experts assessed the economic impacts of demographic change in Asia and Europe and effective policy responses during a ADBI-Fulbright University Viet Nam virtual workshop on 13-15 October. ADBI Deputy Dean Chul Ju Kim described how COVID-19 shocks are amplifying demographic transition challenges and encouraged coordinated policy actions to expand social protections in both young and aging societies. Policy makers and researchers exchanged country case studies, lessons learned, and recommendations to improve aging population safeguards. They emphasized prudently designed fiscal and labor market policies to meet sustainability and inclusion needs.
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ADB Dean: Knowledge Sharing Vital to Asia’s Pandemic Recovery
Dean Tetsushi Sonobe reaffirmed ADBI’s commitment to leading policy experience and best practice-sharing that he said is critical to Asia’s COVID-19 pandemic recovery during the 2020 Virtual Asia-Pacific Think Tank Summit on 13 October. He discussed COVID-19’s impacts on the region’s economies, citing examples in Japan and the Pacific islands, and the importance of harnessing structural changes accelerated by the pandemic to support resilient and inclusive growth. This includes building capacity for efficient public administration and resource allocation, as well as digital skills training urgently needed to boost affected communities, he concluded.
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Asia Pathways Blog
- COVID-19 reminds us to prioritize “water supply, sanitation, and hygiene” (WASH) to reduce child mortality
- Diversification of solar PV suppliers for sustainable energy during the COVID-19 crisis
- Stepping up civil service reforms in Myanmar
- The impacts of COVID-19 on financial stability and regional financial safety nets in ASEAN
- Enhancing agriculture potential in developing countries during the COVID-19 crisis
- COVID-19 hitting migration and remittances hard in developing Asia
Books
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Climate Change and Sovereign Risk
Governments must climate-proof their economies and public finances or potentially face an ever-worsening spiral of climate vulnerability and unsustainable debt burdens.
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Energy Insecurity in Asia: Challenges, Solutions, and Renewable Energy
Relying on fewer energy resources, especially fossil fuels, will enhance energy insecurity for resource-poor economies.
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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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The disconnect between disaster losses and disaster initiatives indicates that governments are unable to recognize the long-term economic impacts of disasters or the role of hazard mitigation.
Incorporating a Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Framework into Country Management and Development Strategies
Governments must climate-proof their economies and public finances or potentially face an ever-worsening spiral of climate vulnerability and unsustainable debt burdens. Climate Change and Sovereign Risk
Relying on fewer energy resources, especially fossil fuels, will enhance energy insecurity for resource-poor economies. Energy Insecurity in Asia: Challenges, Solutions, and Renewable Energy
ADBI Survey: COVID-19 Tests Southeast Asia’s Safety Nets
Supplementary income and coping strategies have helped to cushion steep household income declines in Southeast Asia due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but further action is needed to bridge the region’s digital divide in education widened by the pandemic,...
COVID-19 Impacts on ASEAN Households: Survey Findings
This infographic highlights key findings from an ADBI survey on the impacts of COVID-19 and related policies on households in 8 developing Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries.
Demographic Transition Outlook
This infographic explores global demographic transition, with a focus on population aging, its economic effects, and policy next steps.
Regional integration is reversible in the face of growing erosion of popular support for integration.
Analysis of Brexit and Its Policy Lessons for Asian Integration
Francis Fukuyama, ADBI Dean Guide Post-Pandemic Infrastructure Policymaking
Renowned political scientist Francis Fukuyama of Stanford University and ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe assessed COVID-19’s implications for infrastructure policymaking and keys to navigating politically complex environments to achieve infrastructure...
The reverse Ramsey pricing rule is optimal if equity considerations are introduced.
Electricity Cross-Subsidies in the People’s Republic of China: Equity, Reverse Ramsey Pricing, and Welfare Analysis
A more restrictive abatement policy hurts economic welfare more in the short term while boosting economic welfare in the long term.
Green Taxes, R&D Investments, and Emission Abatement
Green bonds hold vast potential as a financing mechanism for green buildings in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
The Viability of Green Bonds as a Financing Mechanism for Green Buildings in ASEAN
The high capital expenditure of fuel cell vehicles, rather than the fuel cost of hydrogen, is the main barrier to achieving competitiveness against alternative power trains.
Energy Prices and the Economic Feasibility of Using Hydrogen Energy for Road Transport in the People’s Republic of China
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
Podcast
- What Asia can do to strengthen safeguards for its COVID-19 vulnerable aging societies
- Surveys spotlight pandemic impacts and pathways for recovery in developing Asia
- How Asia can finally deliver sustainable sanitation for all
- As pandemic bonds hit the market, what can Asia do to ensure its green bond growth potential?
- Japan’s wastewater lessons in the face of shocks provide timely sanitation solutions for Asia
- The new and unexpected ways Mobility as a Service systems could affect Asia’s cities
