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Railway Express between China and EU: New Model of International Transportation or Traditional tool of Economic Growth?

15 November 2018
China Railway Express (CRE) emerged in 2011 as a means of logistics between the People’s Republic of China and the European Union. This presentation describes CRE, its stages of development, challenges, business model, future, and the motivation of the three players behind its operation.

Quantifying the Economic and Social Impacts of High-Speed Rail: Some Evidence from Europe and China

15 November 2018
In recent years, there has been an increasing move toward appraising the impacts of transport investments beyond the direct user benefits and costs. This presentation reviews the arguments in favor of measuring such impacts, the progress made in implementing such impacts in the appraisal, and the…

Approaches to Measure Wider Economic Impacts of High-Speed Railway and Experiences from Europe

14 November 2018
Investments in high-speed rail (HSR) have a long life and generate impacts which often cannot be allocated directly to specific projects. Therefore, conventional cost–benefit analysis is not sufficient to evaluate the overall impacts of HSR.

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…

European Central Bank's Financial Stability Review

4 June 2018
Risk and associated volatility are not bad. Stifle them, and you stifle growth. Caution, however, is still needed to avoid “excess” risk and volatility. This presentation shares key points in reaction to the latest financial stability review of the European Central Bank.

Financial Stability Review by ECB: Key Takeaways

4 June 2018
In this presentation, European Central Bank’s Paul Hiebert shares the bank’s Financial Stability Review. The presentation also gives an overview of some methodological innovations that can improve understanding of the state of financial stability.

Fiscal Challenges and Social Welfare Reform in Mongolia

18 May 2018
Mongolia has been facing various economic challenges in recent years. Its gross domestic product growth decelerated, its fiscal deficit widened, and government debt decreased. It needs to ramp up its social protection programs to assist the poor and most vulnerable.

How gender budgeting contributes to urban planning

24 April 2018
The presentation includes discussion on: (i) the importance of taking gender into consideration in urban planning; (ii) an overview of the concept of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB); (iii) how GRB is linked with urban planning; (iv) actors and stakeholders in the GRB process; (v) some experiences…

Sustainability Outlook of Mongolia

22 February 2018
This presentation shared the sequence of activities involved in producing a national sustainability outlook and emphasized the importance of visioning, policy mapping, identifying leverage points, and quantitative and qualitative modeling, among others.

Sustainability Outlook of Mongolia (SOM): Process and Content

22 February 2018
This presentation discussed the process of developing Mongolia's Sustainability Outlook (SOM) and gave an overview of its contents.