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ADBI Builds Disaster Risk Financing Capacity in ASEAN
Experts provided capacity building support for disaster risk financing and insurance development in Southeast Asia at an ADBI workshop in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar on 27-28 November, co-hosted with the Asian Development Bank, ASEAN Secretariat, GIZ, and ICRM, Nanyang Technological University. The focus was on enhancing the application of data, analytics, and modeling methodologies to quantify disaster risk profiles and strengthen physical and financial resilience against natural hazards, in step with other risk prevention measures. Disaster finance and insurance solutions for public-private partnerships were also proposed.
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New Book Assesses Central Bank Digital Currency and Fintech Outlook
Key digital currency and fintech growth questions were addressed during a panel discussion launching the new ADBI book Central Bank Digital Currency and Fintech in Asia at the 2019 ADBI Annual Conference in Tokyo on 29 November. Two of the co-editors, ADBI’s Bihong Huang and Sayuri Shirai, and contributor Feng Zhu of Alibaba’s Luo Han Academy discussed the book’s insights on the benefits, risks, and outlook for the potential issuance of digital currency by central banks. They also spotlighted the book’s examination of fintech regulation and country-level case studies.
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New Book Details Population Aging Policy Prescriptions
ADBI has published the new book Aging Societies: Policies and Perspectives which describes innovative policy measures for addressing the economic effects of population aging. The proposals were developed as part of the Think20 (T20) process led by ADBI, in conjunction with Japan’s G20 presidency. The focuses include structural reforms to promote growth, macroeconomic stability, and labor market resilience, as well as ways to enhance social protection systems. Additional emphasis is on data system development, policy pools, and analysis of population aging impacts.
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ADBI Dean Details Southeast Asia Infrastructure Solutions
ADBI Dean Naoyuki Yoshino shared guidance on strengthening infrastructure growth and resilience in Southeast Asia in remarks at the 44th Federation of ASEAN Economic Associations Conference in Singapore on 29-30 November. Dean Yoshino said spillover tax revenues could be used to mobilize private investment such as insurance and pension funds critical to meeting long-term infrastructure demand. He also explained how GDP and tax revenues could be used to project the economic impact of natural disasters, and well as ways to ease budget pressures linked to large-scale catastrophes.
Books
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Water Insecurity and Sanitation in Asia
As Asia rapidly urbanizes, providing water and sanitation services has become problematic.
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Aging Societies: Policies and Perspectives
Group of Twenty (G20) countries are being increasingly exposed to the effects of population aging, such as having an older and shrinking labor force with more retirees.
Latest
As Asia rapidly urbanizes, providing water and sanitation services has become problematic. Water Insecurity and Sanitation in Asia
In many Asian countries, land acquisition is one of the main challenges for infrastructure development, which delays the completion of projects and lowers the rate of return of infrastructure investment.
Innovative Measures for Infrastructure Investments: Illustrating Land Trust Scheme and Spillover Effect
Equity market cycles in emerging market economies in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe may be a more useful gauge of the financial cycle compared to cycles in credit and property markets.
Financial Cycles in Asset Markets and Regions
Group of Twenty (G20) countries are being increasingly exposed to the effects of population aging, such as having an older and shrinking labor force with more retirees. Aging Societies: Policies and Perspectives
As climate change is a global phenomenon, it will take efforts by economies large and small to tackle this problem.
The (Economic) Impacts of Climate Change: Some Implications for Asian Economies
In 2015, the People's Republic of China alone contributed about 28% of global carbon dioxide emissions, while it contributed 17% of the global gross domestic product.
Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Economic Development in the People’s Republic of China: The Role of Renewable Energy across Provinces
Although all inhabited islands in the Maldives have made progress in electrification, achieving a secure, reliable energy supply while changing to low-carbon energy has been challenging.
Dimensions of Energy Insecurity on Small Islands: The Case of the Maldives
Safeguard policies increase the sustainability of the affected person's livelihood and living standards.
Impact of Social Safeguarding on Private Land Ownership and Individual Well-Being: The Case of Sri Lanka
A fair compensation model extends beyond the market value of land to take account of the comprehensive value of land to its owner.
Designing Fair Compensation for Compulsory Acquisition of Land: Empirical Estimation of Hope Value, Blight, and the Negative Impact of Landowners’ Caste on the Value of Land in Bengaluru (India)
The development of financial technology has already radically altered the landscape of the financial system in Asia and promises to have an even greater impact in coming years.
Central Bank Digital Currency and Fintech in Asia
Perhaps tariffs are levied more to ensure that foreign businesses enter the domestic market, rather than denying them entry.
Entry Barriers to Motivate Multinational Joint Ventures: A Mixed Oligopoly Analysis
Guarantee fee rates should be more flexible and vary depending on creditworthiness and the macroeconomic state of the economy.
A Model for Calculating the Optimal Credit Guarantee Fee for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Videos
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Podcast
- ADBI book launch of Central Bank Digital Currency and Fintech in Asia
- ADBI book launch of Achieving Energy Security in Asia
- Rethinking engineer training is vital to meeting Asian infrastructure demand
- Central banks’ changing views on green finance
- Papua New Guinea is the forefront of fintech financial inclusion breakthroughs
- Public works, infrastructure spending can offset negative effects of liberalized trade
