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AASCTF Digital Solutions Brief: Digital Community Engagement Solutions for City Planning

13 April 2021
This brief sets out opportunities, benefits and prerequisites for pursuing smart digital solutions in enhancing public participation in urban planning, with two use cases showcasing application of such approaches.

AASCTF Digital Solutions Brief: Promoting Safe and Inclusive Tourism Recovery via Virtual Reality

2 March 2021
This brief sets out opportunities, benefits and prerequisites for pursuing smart digital solutions in promoting tourism recovery in cities, with two use cases showcasing application of such approaches.

AML/CFT Utilities: The Possibilities, Perils, and Pitfalls—A Pacific Perspective

10 December 2020
Money laundering (ML) and terrorism financing (TF) are priority issues for banks in the Pacific, which shoulder the risks and high costs associated with ML and TF. This presentation gives an overview of the banks’ process in onboarding new customers and offers a different Know Your Customer (KYC)…

AASCTF Digital Solutions Brief: Digitized Solutions Connecting Labor Market and Students

8 December 2020
This 2-page document sets out opportunities, benefits and prerequisites for pursuing EdTech to bridge the labor demand and skills gap, with two use cases showcasing country-wide application of such approaches.

Using AI for Skills Anticipation and Planning

8 December 2020
The presentation emphasized how AI and technology can be applied to help students and individuals access real-time labour market information. Assisted by machine intelligence, educators can empower students to make better informed career decisions and learning choices.

Loan 3897-PRC: Chongqing Innovation and Human Capital

2 December 2020
Hinako Maruyama discussed the Chongqing Innovation and Human Capital Development Project.

PRC: Interim Regulations of the People's Republic of China Concerning the Assignment and Transfer of the Right to the Use of the State-owned Land in the Urban Areas

29 November 2020
These Regulations are formulated in order to reform the system of using the State-ownedland in the urban areas, rationally develop, utilize and manage the land, strengthen land administrationand promote urban construction and economic development.

[VIDEO] Microfinance Can Raise Incomes: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in China

17 November 2020
This study investigates the impacts of a government-led microcredit program in China which implemented at scale in its poor rural areas with a randomized controlled trial (RCT). In contrast to recent RCT-based studies that have failed to find evidence of significant increases in income from…

[VIDEO] A Bit of Salt, A Trace of Life: Gender Norms and The Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children

17 November 2020
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of schoolaged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the opposite…

Smart Water Management - The Singapore Experience

3 November 2020
This presentation discussed the driving factors towards Singapore's shift towards intelligent water management and some of the smart solutions and technologies that they are developing and deploying under the Smart PUB Roadmap.