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[VIDEO] Employment and Silver Dividend

9 September 2021

[VIDEO] Health and Long-Term Care

9 September 2021

Bond Market Guide for Mongolia

19 April 2021
This guide provides comprehensive information about the local currency bond market of Mongolia, which has been an active participant to the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum since 2019.

SERD Policy Talk (SPOT): Building Dynamic SMEs

25 March 2021
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have generally lagged behind, being less productive and profitable than bigger companies. Now, SMEs face the added challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic and technology disruptions. But the crisis may offer an opportunity for SMEs to enter new areas and disrupt…

SERD Policy Talk (SPOT): Small Economy Challenges

26 February 2021
Small economies face unique development challenges due to the small size of their domestic economy, limited economic base and high cost of connecting to regional and global markets. They tend also to have severe institutional capacity constraints. Because of their small size and face a high level…

SERD Policy Talk (SPOT): Transforming Education

28 January 2021
This policy talk discussed how education is reshaping in response to COVID-19 and how students and teachers are responding in the transition. Policies to prevent further erosion of hard-won gains in education were discussed as well. Listen to the full recording below. SPOT Series · SERD Policy…

RFI Inception Workshop Day 1

6 January 2021
Video recording of Day 1

SERD Policy Talk (SPOT): Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and How It Can Transform the Economies in the Region

1 December 2020
The members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and five regional partners (Australia, Japan, New Zealand, PRC, and Republic of Korea) signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on 15 November 2020. RCEP is seen as the biggest free trade agreement in history and…

[VIDEO]What works to control COVID-19?: Econometric Analysis of a Cross-country Panel

17 November 2020
Countries from around the world have used a variety of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to suppress the spread of COVID-19. These include lockdowns of varying intensity and duration; efforts to test, track and isolate potential carriers of disease; and the use of masks and other social…

[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…