ADBI: News and Views
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Let's Build a Highway
How can governments build much needed roads without going into huge public debt? ADBI's first animated short explains a new budget-neutral way to attract private investors for infrastructure. -
Social Wellbeing and Sustainable Growth in Asia
In this presentation ADBI Dean Naoyuki Yoshino relates tax compliance to social well-being and maintaining a sustainable economy. -
The Economic Impact of Infrastructure: Proposals for Evaluation
In this presentation ADBI Dean Naoyuki Yoshino looks at non-traditional means of infrastructure investment. -
Disasters and Fragile States
In a region increasingly defined by middle- and upper-middle-income countries, failure to address countries in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS) puts the notion of an “Asian Century” at risk. -
How Can Asia’s Deepening Economic Integration Be Managed?
Aladdin Rillo, senior capacity building and training economist at ADBI, looks at the benefits and risks involved in deepening economic integration in Asian countries. -
How the Digital Economy is Changing Trade
Alisa DiCaprio, research economist at ADBI, looks at the relationship between trade and digitalization, including e-commerce, digital goods, and financial technologies. -
The Determinants of Rating Splits between Local and Global Rating Agencies
Naoko Nemoto, financial economist at ADBI, talks about the current status and the causes of rating disparities between local and global credit rating agencies operating in Asia. -
Obesity in Asia and the Pacific: Facts, Consequences, and Policies for Better Health
The Asian Development Bank Institute estimates that obesity can cost economies as much as 5% of GDP. It recommends changes on two fronts. Matthias Helble, research economist at ADBI, proposes that to reduce this expenditure it is necessary to firstly, make school food healthier and label foods to show what’s in them and secondly, make exercise easier, safer, and more attractive. -
The Housing Challenge in Emerging Asia
People need housing finance, but many low- and middle-income households typically don’t have access to formal finance mechanisms such as banks. Matthias Helble, research economist at ADBI, puts forward solutions to this problem. -
Increasing Infrastructure Investment with Spillover Tax Revenues
ADBI Dean Naoyuki Yoshino explains how more private sector money can be secured in order to further build infrastructure in Asia.