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23 to 25 September 2025
In today's rapidly evolving financial landscape, achieving financial health, sustainable finance, and fostering an inclusive, resilient, and stable financial system have become critical priorities for the Asia-Pacific region. Financial health, encompassing the ability of individuals, households,…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office
11 April 2025
This workshop aimed to build on the insights and innovative ideas from the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) design thinking session on financing bamboo agroforestry (Development Asia for the proceedings). This second installment focused on practical implementation, exploring real-world case…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office
10 April 2025
This workshop aimed to identify and develop immediate and next-generation solutions to address the ongoing challenges of correspondent banking de-risking in the Pacific. By exploring policy, regulatory capacity, technological innovations, and funding mechanisms, the session…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office
10 March 2025
On 10 March, ADB joined the World Bank, Swedish Tax Agency, and local Chartered Accounting firms in an online seminar on Advance Pricing Agreements (APA), organized by the International Chamber of Commerce Sri Lanka. The event focused on best practices, process steps, and challenges in APA…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
20 to 21 February 2025
Venue:
Auditorium Halls 1–2, ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines
Logistics:
All sessions will be conducted in English.
How to register:
By invitation only
Background:
ADB and the Vienna University Global Tax Policy Center (WU) will hold the Digital Economy Taxation (DET)…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
12 to 13 February 2025
Representatives from key segments of the tuna fisheries value chain in the Republic of Maldives gathered in Malé on 12-13 February 2025 for the Tuna Think Tank Workshop. This event brought together significant stakeholders, including delegates from the Maldivian government, fish processing…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office
10 February 2025
Domestic Resource Mobilization remains a top priority for many economies in Asia and the Pacific. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, many revenue bodies have reestablished and rebuilt administrative systems to urgently restore government tax revenue flows disrupted by the pandemic.
The eighth…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
4 December 2024
The Asia Pacific Tax Hub, in collaboration with Development Partners, Multilateral Financial Institutions, and other ADB Regional Departments is working to strengthen Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) and International Tax Cooperation (ITC) thereby supporting development member countries’ (DMCs…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
2 to 3 December 2024
Background
Contractors tendering for Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) partner projects in the Pacific Island countries (PICs) are struggling to access the insurances and related risk engineering services required to deliver quality construction infrastructure projects funded by donors…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office, Procurement, Portfolio, and Financial Management Department
4 November 2024
This focused design thinking workshop, curated by the ADB, aimed to consider mechanisms to scale high-impact agroforestry. Using bamboo as a case study for how agroforestry might achieve affordable, disaster-resilient housing, climate mitigation, and financial health for the vulnerable, this…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office