Spotlight

Building Resilience with Social Protection in Time of Crisis
Does varying the delivery of social protection and poverty reduction interventions entail a trade-off between cost...

ADB Data Room: Circular Economy
A Circular Economy is a systemic approach to decouple...

Use of Geospatial Tools and Analysis for Remote Monitoring of Projects and...

Resilience for the Urban Poor Forum 2021
Building the resilience of the urban poor is a critical issue for rapidly urbanizing countries in Asia and the...

East Asia Forum 2022: Decarbonizing Asia and the Pacific – Experience from...

Training on Successful Implementation of a Digital Financial Services for...
Digital financial services (DFS) are financial transactions, including banking, insurance, and payment services that...

World Water Day 2022: Digitalizing Water: The Visible and Invisible
On World Water Day, 22 March 2022, ADB hosted a webinar on “Digitalizing Water: The Visible and Invisible.” In line...

Making Big Data Work for Economic Assessment
Big data offers unprecedented advantages for monitoring economic trends in real-time and assessing the socioeconomic...

Digitalization and Credit Scoring for Women SMES Webinar Series
Major Events
The 17th ACEF 2022 shared and explored proven and new ideas on policy, technology, and Paris-aligned financing to accelerate the low-carbon energy transition in Asia and the Pacific, which...
Background
The past two years since the previous Asia and the Pacific Transport Forum have seen an unprecedented change in how the globe understands transport and...
The pandemic has had a deep and profound impact throughout Southeast Asia. Many of the region’s hard-won gains in reducing poverty, creating jobs, and enhancing health and well-...
Empowering women to participate fully in economic and social life is essential to building strong economies, establishing stable and just societies, and improving the quality of life for men,...
Recent Events
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) feeds the largest population in the world, a task fraught with many challenges. Investments in agriculture together with...
Asia and the Pacific continues to be a fast-growing and dynamic region. The overall trend for urbanization will see an estimated 2.5 billion people or 55% of the population living in urban areas by...
Access to, and use of, digital technology in rural areas of developing countries has increased considerably in recent decades, underpinning a vast body of theoretical and empirical research on its...
Mediation, as a party-centered “alternate dispute resolution” (ADR) method, can help address conflicts that arise in the workplace and project implementation. ADR seeks to acknowledge and assess the...