Mindfulness involves training people’s attention to experience the present moment with greater curiosity and kindness. This helps them to not only appreciate what is going well but to respond more skillfully in the here and now to life’s inevitable challenges.

Learn how meticulous communication and participation planning for a road project in Myanmar paved the way for real connectivity and inclusion.

Impact evaluation (IE) is both a possible and vital component in implementing environmental programs and in achieving the desired environmental outcomes. Indirect and general equilibrium effects, however, pose challenges in the use of IE as an environmental intervention. Coming up with creative solutions is needed to be able to evaluate empirically.

Can we really end poverty? A model for eradicating extreme poverty developed by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee offers proof.

According to the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee’s graduation model, addressing poverty reduction entails looking beyond microfinance. Extreme poverty requires a blend of synergistic measures to pull people out and sustain this independently over time. Developing holistic responses is essential as the world’s ultrapoor have multiple needs to meet.

Preparing for the next global health epidemic, which inevitably will happen and certainly will be different from previous ones, entails answering five important questions: knowing why, knowing what, knowing where, knowing how, and knowing when.

What do ADB’s stakeholders really want from ADB? How can ADB respond better? View the result of ADB’s top tasks survey conducted in 2015.

Top tasks are the small set of tasks that matter most to customers. This presentation discusses the results of the top task survey conducted by ADB in May 2015 to find out what is important to stakeholders or customers.

Mega trends sweeping through Asia and the world are affecting every dimension of people’s lives. Earth Institute's Jeffrey Sachs discusses how governments and society could manage these changes and the associated challenges to build resilience and promote sustainable growth in the future.

Water is a critical part in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The Asian Water Development Outlook is essentially a communication tool for ADB’s developing member countries, but also internally for the Bank and for other financiers from the Asia and Pacific region.

This short video highlights key moments on Insight Thursday, ADB’s in-house knowledge sharing series.

Asian Development Bank’s Bambang Susantono in his welcome address at this conference highlighted how (i) a sharing economy gathers individuals, companies, governments, and policy makers to share information and resources, creating a network effect and impact that increases access and value for all involved; (ii) digital finance is changing the value proposition for customers and institutions, from microfinance to remittances to government to person payments; and (iii) digital technologies and big data now allow financial service providers to more effectively serve the financially excluded.

Customer-centricity is the key to real financial inclusion with digitization as the tool towards this transformation. Recently, there has been a big push to promote digital financial inclusion in India with some examples featured in this presentation. The success and benefits as well as the challenges of a customer-centric approach are examined here.