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Expert Gauges High-Speed Rail’s Regional Development Potential
High-speed rail’s (HSR) future capacity to deliver sustainable and inclusive regional growth was the focus of an ADBI-WCTRS HSR webinar on 26 June featuring Michael Wegener, former Director of the University of Dortmund’s Institute of Spatial Planning. Wegener described spatial modeling of HSR development in Europe through 2050. The webinar also highlighted HSR advances in Japan and its impacts on regional connectivity and growth. Policy makers and experts voiced concerns about COVID-19’s effects on mass transportation and called for further research on the outlook for HSR.
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ADBI Dean Promotes Digitalization-Driven Recovery During Think Tank Town Hall
Capitalizing on the accelerating digital transformation of economies in the COVID-19 era will be key to boosting crisis recovery, according to ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe. He shared this assessment during a multi-week global think tank town hall initiative to promote evidence-based pandemic solutions, organized by the University of Pennsylvania’s Think Tank and Civil Societies Program. Dean Sonobe urged greater digital infrastructure investment and risk-mitigation to enhance employment, business resilience, and social protection. He also called for adequate governance of digital economies to further build their inclusiveness and shock-resistance.
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Expert Assesses Mobility as a Service Development Effects
The rise of smart Mobility as a Service (MaaS) systems and their development implications for cities were examined by Purdue University mobility analytics expert Satish Ukkusuri during an ADBI Distinguished Speaker Series webinar on 3 July. Ukkursuri noted that MaaS-based ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft offer greater convenience, but can also increase road congestion and emissions, and lower drivers’ wages. Big data analysis models could help to test possible regulatory solutions for mitigating MaaS risks, he added. The webinar concluded with a discussion on COVID-19’s impacts on transit ridership and ways to safely reopen transportation systems.
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Former ROK Minister Urges Post-COVID-19 Digital Education Rethink
Former Education, Science, and Technology Minister of the Republic of Korea (ROK), Ju-Ho Lee, encouraged the technological transformation of post-COVID-19 education during an ADBI Distinguished Speaker Series webinar on 1 July. Lee, now a professor at the Korean Development Institute, noted that the application of artificial intelligence-based “High-Touch High-Tech” education could enhance learning by delivering basic knowledge that allows teachers to focus on personalized instruction. Pandemic-driven changes highlight physical classroom education’s limits and provide an opening to advance to more innovative, equitable, and sustainable modes of learning, he concluded.
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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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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.
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
A higher level of financial literacy has strong and positive effects on an individual’s awareness and use of fintech products.
Fintech and Financial Literacy in Viet Nam
Government, nongovernment organizations, and policy makers should encourage SMEs to grow as internationally competitive entrepreneurs.
Impact of Global Value Chains on Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Sri Lanka: Evidence from Sri Lanka
Public finance plays an important role in the social and economic development of developed and emerging countries.
Toward Better Fiscal Governance in Asia and the Pacific
The implementation of quality control and assurance processes for small and medium-sized enterprises is an important determinant for their export activities.
Determinants of Export Performance of SMEs in the Kyrgyz Republic
Marine tourism can ensure social, environmental, and economic benefits through sustainable use of marine resources.
Marine Tourism for Sustainable Development in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
The significance of small and medium-sized enterprises in Cambodia has not been reflected in their global value chain participation because of various constraint issues or gaps.
Connecting Cambodia’s SMEs to Regional Value Chains: The “Bridging Gap” and “Missing Link”
New Book Explores Growing Central Bank Challenges
A newly published ADBI Press book examines the impact of the increasingly uncertain, innovation-driven global environment on central bank policy making.
Introducing the Book Growing Central Bank Challenges in the World and Japan: Low Inflation, Monetary Policy, and Digital Currency
This ADBI Press book examines the impact of the increasingly uncertain, innovation-driven global environment on central bank policy making.
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. Growing Central Bank Challenges in the World and Japan: Low Inflation, Monetary Policy, and Digital Currency
Spending on transport infrastructure can improve households’ income significantly, which may be transformed ultimately into higher tax revenue and GDP growth.
Infrastructure Development and Public–Private Partnership: Measuring Impacts of Urban Transport Infrastructure in Pakistan
Videos
- 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
- Building the Future of Quality Infrastructure
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- 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
- Quality infrastructure Asia needs to address COVID-19 and the SDGs
- Asia’s economic recovery is an opportunity for green policy
