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Expert Describes How School Sanitation Enhancements Could Boost Girls’ Education
Improved school sanitation could advance gender equality in education and inclusive development, said Anjali Adukia of the University of Chicago during an ADBI Featured Speaker webinar co-hosted with the Institute for Fiscal Studies on 1 March. Drawing upon her research of India’s economically diverse states, she explained that installing separate latrines for male and female students could be a relatively low-cost way to enhance school sanitation, safety, and enrollment, particularly for pre-pubescent girls. She also noted the importance of policies that align education, sanitation development, and gender equality. View the webinar recording and speaker presentation.
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Policy Makers, Researchers Assess Asia’s Fiscal Options for Powering Green Recovery
Fiscal approaches for enabling post-COVID-19 green development in Asia were highlighted during a virtual policy dialogue on 24-26 February, co-hosted by ADBI, the Indonesia Ministry of Finance Fiscal Policy Agency, and University of Indonesia Institute for Economic and Social Research. Paul Ekins of the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy, and Resources framed the discussion in keynote remarks stressing the region’s importance in the global transition to a low-carbon economy. Policy makers and researchers went on to examine Asia’s sustainable financing conditions and instruments, including green bonds, carbon taxes, emission trading, and public private partnerships.
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ADBI Dean Urges Regional Cooperation to Rebuild Southeast Asia’s Supply Chains
ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe discussed priorities for fostering competitive post-COVID-19 supply chains in Southeast Asia during the 2021 Forum on Competition in Developing Countries hosted by the Philippine Competition Commission on 22-23 February. He described the role of digitalization in promoting inclusive growth and called for greater regional cooperation to address the potential rise of big-tech monopolies and creeping protectionism. He also explained how green strategy and the creation of a regional carbon market could help boost supply chain resilience and competitiveness.
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ADBI-JARTS Guide Asia’s Post-COVID-19 High-Speed Rail Development
Asian and European high-speed rail (HSR) policy lessons and the sector’s post-pandemic growth in developing Asia were the focus of an ADBI-Japan Railway Technical Services (JARTS) virtual policy dialogue on 24 February. Researchers and HSR operators spotlighted imperatives for advancing HSR projects, including buffers to mitigate budget overruns and planning delays, multi-disciplinary strategy to balance stakeholder interests, and low carbon and sustainable project design. They also examined HSR developments in Germany, India, and Japan and policy decision-making adaptation.
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Korea Development Institute Joins ADBI-Led Think-Asia Network
The Korea Development Institute (KDI) has become the latest member of the Think-Asia knowledge-sharing network administered by ADBI and the University of Pennsylvania’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program. Under the scheme, select KDI English language books and reports on economic development are now available for free on Think-Asia’s online repository of over 12,000 knowledge products from 27 of the region’s leading think tanks and will be updated regularly. It builds on a memorandum of understanding between ADBI, the Asian Development Bank, and KDI enabling tripartite research and capacity building for the region through 2025.
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- Achieving resilient emerging market economies amid the macroeconomic challenges of the 21st century
- Fintech development transforming the financial landscape in the People’s Republic of China
- Repurposing food waste: A circular economy approach for the food system
- Digital transformation poses potential risks for stability and the financial industry
- Making citywide inclusive sanitation a reality through capacity development
- Toward an ASEAN COVID-19 travel balloon
- Toward a robust economic recovery from COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific
- Does sanitation access improve schooling outcomes for girls and boys?
Events
- Virtual Conference on COVID-19 and Economic Recovery Potential in the CAREC Region
- Book Launch: Developing Infrastructure in Central Asia: Impacts and Financing Mechanisms
- Virtual Conference on Fintech and COVID-19
- 11th ADBI-OECD-ILO Roundtable on Labor Migration in Asia: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Building Back Better
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Books
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Reforming State-Owned Enterprises in Asia: Challenges and Solutions
State-owned enterprises are still significant players in many Asian economies, and their characteristics and competitive advantage as publicly owned enterprises allow them to play critical roles in providing essential public services.
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Leveraging SME Finance through Value Chains in CAREC Landlocked Countries
SMEs in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation countries can contribute to economic development by helping to diversify the production base, create employment opportunities, alleviate poverty, and increase regional food security.
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Political, institutional, and governance issues may ultimately affect the optimal organizational structure for the sewerage industry.
Industry Fragmentation and Wastewater Efficiency: A Case Study of Hyogo Prefecture in Japan
State-owned enterprises are still significant players in many Asian economies, and their characteristics and competitive advantage as publicly owned enterprises allow them to play critical roles in providing essential public services. Reforming State-Owned Enterprises in Asia: Challenges and Solutions
Ministers, Experts Chart Asia’s Digitalization Pathway to Sustainable Post-COVID-19 Growth
Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Research and Technology Minister Bambang P. S. Brodjonegoro highlighted developing Asia’s potential to leverage COVID-19 accelerated digitalization to achieve greater sustainable and inclusive post-...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt global economic activity. However, what is underway beneath the tip of this iceberg offers strong clues on future prospects for trade and transportation development in the region.
Of the People, for the People: Economic Corridors, High-Speed Railways, and Quality of Life in Post-COVID-19 Asia
The economic response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has varied across the world, depending on whether countries have had fiscal resources and monetary room to address its challenges.
Dealing with Corporate Distress, Repair, and Reallocation after the Pandemic
An energy policy for ASEAN should explicitly pursue a dual transition pathway strategy to yield the best outcome in the energy trilemma.
An Energy Policy for ASEAN? Lessons from the EU Experience on Energy Integration, Security, and Decarbonization
Spotlight on Japan’s “Johkasou” Sanitation System: A Model for Asia
Japan’s decentralized wastewater treatment system, known as “Johkasou,” has made affordable on-site sanitation facilities widely available and contributed to the country’s high sanitation standard.
New ADBI E-Learning Course Offers Guide to Sustainable Finance Growth in Asia
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 E-Learning Course on Governing Sustainable Finance
Governing Sustainable Finance examines the rise of sustainable finance and its potential to deliver robust investment returns and greener, lower carbon post COVID-19 economies in Asia and the Pacific.
T20 Italy 2021 Inception Conference Remarks by ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe
Dean Sonobe addressed the virtual launch of Think20 (T20) Italy 2021 by describing ADBI’s priority areas for advancing policy research and capacity building, in conjunction with Italy’s Group of 20 (G20) presidency.
Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are evolving under a new normal that requires a more contactless society.
COVID-19 Impact on Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises under the Lockdown: Evidence from a Rapid Survey in the Philippines
Energy productivity is to a large extent driven by technological change but offset by economic structural change.
Cross-Economy Dynamics in Energy Productivity: Evidence from 47 Economies over the Period 2000–2015
Videos
- Spotlight on Japan’s “Johkasou” Sanitation System: A Model for Asia
- ADBI E-Learning Course on Governing Sustainable Finance
- T20 Italy 2021 Inception Conference Remarks by ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe
- Leveraging SME Finance through Value Chains in CAREC Landlocked Countries
- Equitable Land Use for Asian Infrastructure
- Macroeconomic Stabilization in the Digital Age
- ADBI-Led T20 Policy Briefs Promote G20 Pandemic Recovery
Podcast
- Asia could lay the groundwork for a post-pandemic infrastructure boom through fairer land use
- Central Asia could be a model for advancing SME trade and inclusive recovery
- MSME digitalization could be the ticket to a speedy Asian recovery in 2021
- How to avoid the spiral of climate vulnerability and unsustainable debt
- Could Asia’s alarming acceleration of garbage accumulation become a sustainability success story?
- The increasingly perilous act of balancing Asia’s economies as digitalization accelerates
