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- The roundtable will provide a platform for experts to discuss labor migration trends, policies, country/regional experiences, and best practices.
- This virtual conference will explore digital connectivity development, gaps, and opportunities for policy collaboration in Asia and the Pacific.
- The lower likelihood of stunting appears to be a direct effect of greater maternal education.
- Despite the increasing significance of regional integration, limited empirical evidence exists to compute and measure its levels using digital and sustainable development dimensions and related indicators in the member economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Centra
- Food prices at both domestic and global levels have a large influence on export restriction.
- This report outlines how the Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative helped to strengthen an enabling business environment and to promote inclusive growth in the region during the fiscal year 2022.
- ASEAN members must shift from meeting basic development targets to ramping up efforts to improve quality of life across the region to build a resilient ASEAN and yield a faster recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, says a new ADB report.
- This report uses a broad range of indicators to assess the individual and collective development progress made by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- Asia and the Pacific should promote the use of systems integration, AI, and simulation among companies in the region to increase the resilience of their supply chains.
- A new ADB report finds that the path to recovery has proven uneven and diverse, yielding development gaps among member countries of ASEAN.
- Subnational and national industrial development and regional cooperation policies are critical for Pacific island countries to participate in global and regional production networks.
- Rice is the most important staple food in Asia, and it is central to the region’s food security. It provides more than a quarter of calorie intake in the region and about 40% of calorie intake in Southeast Asia. Approximately 90% of rice is produced and consumed in Asia.
- Exchange rate developments are important considerations for central banks in the sense that they can affect their core mandate of price stability.
- As mandated by its charter, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) gives a high priority to supporting regional cooperation and integration (RCI) in Asia and the Pacific. The Bank recognizes that RCI is essential for achieving sustainable growth and poverty reduction. It has helped to finance and facilitate various key RCI programs, most notably the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program, the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program, and the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Program.
- SEADS 2023 amplified the urgent call for climate action to ensure Southeast Asia’s carbon neutrality by 2050, and highlighted the importance of partnerships to accelerate climate financing and decarbonization.
- Indonesia Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati gave a special speech at the Think7 Japan Summit and discussed onward challenges and priorities in Asia and the Pacific.
- ADBI Dean and Think7 Japan Lead Chair Tetsushi Sonobe discussed intersecting global crises and how think tanks can help the Group of Seven (G7) and partners address them.
- Kenji Yamada, the State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan, called for global efforts on disarmament and non-proliferation.
- Remarks by Masatsugu Asakawa President, Asian Development Bank, at the 15th Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) Leaders’ Summit, 11 May 2023, Labuan Bajo, Indonesia
- Remarks by Masatsugu Asakawa, President, Asian Development Bank, at the 15th Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) Leaders’ Summit, 11 May 2023, Labuan Bajo, Indonesia