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Smart City Policy and Future Direction

16 October 2018
What makes a city smart? In this presentation, Lee Jae Young of the Smart & Green City Research Center discusses the smarty city concept at the technology and infrastructure level.

Best Practice on Waste Management in Korea

15 October 2018
Korean company Sudokwon Landfill Site Management Corporation is changing the game in waste management not just in the Republic of Korea, but in some other countries as well. Discover how the company help solve waste management problems while promoting social and economic benefits.

K-water’s Smart Water Management Solution for Water Quantity Management

15 October 2018
Smart water management can help promote efficiency in water utilities. This presentation shares some of K-water’s solutions that countries can learn from.

ICT-based Water Leakage Control

15 October 2018
Water pipe leak is one of the common problems in the area of water management. While this water leak is inevitable, solutions are available. Learn more about Korea Total U-city solutions for managing water pipe leakages that help reduce non revenue water.

Simulation of Rainfed Rice Yields Under Climate Change, Cambodia

10 October 2018
Simulation of Rainfed Rice Yields Under Climate Change, Cambodia

Financial Transformation of Utilities: The Cambodia Experience

4 October 2018
Learn from the experience of Cambodia's Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority in financial transformation and financial sustainability.

Vocational Training and Labor Market Transition: A Randomized Experiment among Cambodian Disadvantaged Young Adults

23 August 2018
In Cambodia, a trial provided two-month training in housekeeping, with incentives, to low-income young adults in Phnom Penh. The program found that training had no effects on employment outcomes, and it was not enough for disadvantaged youth to break into the labor market.

Financing Tertiary Education

22 August 2018
Given the need to expand universities in Asia and therefore the critical role of financing, the author seeks to answer questions such as the case for university tuition charges and why student loans are necessary. He also differentiates between time-based repayment loans and income-contingent loans…

Demographic Change and Labor Quality in the Republic of Korea

17 May 2018
The authors conducted research to analyze the Republic of Korea’s human resource development from 1986 to 2016, measure changes in labor resources, and project labor quality and quantity growth up to 2040. They found that the labor quantity growth rate declined from the late 1980s to 2016, but the…

Discussion on "Demographic Change and Labor Quality in the Republic of Korea"

17 May 2018
In his reaction, the presenter noted that in theRepublic of Korea, the wage profile follows seniority, and the notion of equal pay for equal-value work is not prevalent. Therefore, wage is not a good indicator of productivity, and the paper needs to do more to incorporate overall changes in labor…