ADB management and subject experts share knowledge, views, and insights on development issues in op-ed articles and opinion pieces published in international and regional publications.
The COVID-19 pandemic spares no one. But its consequences for health, social and economic conditions are unequal and disproportionately affect the poor and vulnerable. The pandemic is also eroding the global middle class.
Marine ecosystems are threatened by extinction. Over the past 50 years, the world has lost nearly half of its coral reefs and mangrove forests, while marine populations have halved and global fish stocks depleted by a third.
For the vast majority of us, last year was defined by the unanticipated calamity of COVID-19.
The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 has been acclaimed as one of the most important climate actions in the world.
Since the 1990s, advanced countries have seen low productivity growth, something that also afflicted developing countries in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008.
The harsh health and economic impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic are being felt across developing Asia.
The global economy would not exist without the ocean.
This year, the agenda of the National People’s Congress includes a critical item that is only discussed once every half a decade, a new five-year plan.
It is now 10 years since the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) established 20 targets for biodiversity conservation. The bad news is that none of these targets has been fully achieved at the global level.
As the Philippines embarks on an ambitious plan to recover from the (COVID-19) pandemic...