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24 August 2021
COVID-19 has reinforced the need for healthy, livable, and resilient cities, highlighting the relationship between health, space, and infrastructure. With many cities under lockdown, public transport disrupted, health-care services running overcapacity, and infections skyrocketing, it is critical…
Organizer: ADBI
17 August 2021
This ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar presented United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Senior Counsel Peter Fowler, who discussed the increasing importance of intellectual property (IP) protection and enforcement in Asia and the Pacific given rising e-commerce and digital trade, competition…
Organizer: ADBI
16 August 2021
The ADBI-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation webinar was organized in collaboration with the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The webinar featured Yale University’s Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak who presented his work on technology adoption in developing countries. This includes low technology uptake in the…
Organizer: ADBI
21 July 2021
via Zoom.
Decentralization, Local Governance and Local Economic Development in Mongolia offers an empirical assessment of both the formal features of Mongolia’s system of decentralized governance, and the extent to which these formal features translate into the actual, practical working…
Organizer: East Asia Department, Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
16 July 2021
This ADBI-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation webinar, organized in collaboration with the Institute for Fiscal Studies, featured Raymond Guiteras of North Carolina State University who presented four studies on promoting sanitation investment, maintenance, and use in rural areas of Tanore,…
Organizer: ADBI
15 July 2021
While the COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented economic and social damage to Asia and the Pacific, the crisis also presents an opportunity to build resilience, inclusiveness, and sustainability. At the same time, pandemic strains on public finances compound the need for governments to…
Organizer: ADBI
7 July 2021
This ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar presented New Zealand Infrastructure Commission Board Chair Alan Bollard, who examined the role of infrastructure in COVID-19 recovery in New Zealand and wider Asia and the Pacific with ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe and a panel of experts.
Drawing upon his experience…
Organizer: ADBI
1 to 21 July 2021
Fiscal Management, Local Governance and Economic Growth in a Post-COVID-19 World - The New Normal is a webinar series organized by the Public Management, Financial Sector, and Regional Cooperation Division (EAPF) with the Mongolia and People's Republic of China (PRC) Resident Mission, and…
Organizer: East Asia Department, Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
1 July 2021
via Zoom.
Under the High-Quality Growth agenda, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) seeks to rebalance its economy by addressing the negative side effects of a long period of unprecedented economic growth, and local governments will have a key role to play in the implementation of that agenda…
Organizer: East Asia Department, Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
29 to 30 June 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound implications for the availability and affordability of insurance coverage across various lines of business and the adequacy of retirement savings. At the same time, insurance and retirement savings markets continue to be affected by catastrophe risks,…
Organizer: ADBI