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Economic Impacts of Urban Transit Infrastructure Upgrading

20 January 2023
Mass transit infrastructure can have a wide range of development benefits—many of which are not captured in traditional cost-benefit analysis. Beyond shorter commuting times and improved traffic, these investments can alter the economic landscape of a metropolis as firms and families relocate.…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department

1st Asia-Pacific Housing Conference: Making Housing Affordable, Inclusive, and Resilient

8 to 9 November 2022
A city must provide housing to all its residents if it is to be called livable. Are cities in Asia and the Pacific livable from this perspective? Most cities in the lower- and middle-income countries in Asia and the Pacific face severe housing challenges. The urban poor and informal settlers…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office, Finance Sector Office, Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office, Special Initiatives and Funds

High-Level Roundtable on Asian Cities: Fostering Growth and Inclusion

30 September 2019
Urbanization is widely believed to be an engine of growth. Cities host dynamic firms and create productive jobs, with agglomerations resulting in better matches between workers and jobs, strong input-output linkages, and more knowledge spillovers. But there is some concern that the nature of…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department, Southeast Asia Department

Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2019 Update

25 September 2019
ADB launched the Asian Development Outlook 2019 Update: Fostering Growth and Inclusion in Asia's Cities, an update to its flagship economic publication, the Asian Development Outlook 2019 (ADO). The ADO provides a comprehensive analysis of macroeconomic issues in developing Asia, including economic…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department

City Finances in Asia and the Pacific: Issues and Reform Options

28 May 2018
The current deficit in investment for financing Asia-Pacific infrastructure is estimated to be more than $1 trillion. Roy Bahl, Regents Professor of Economics emeritus at Georgia State University, presented the long-standing constraints and introduced pragmatic steps towards increased local…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office, Water and Urban Development Sector Office

Modernizing Land Administration to Enhance Development

25 January 2018
Land administration underpins the very functioning of states and societies. Effective systems for recording land ownership, land values, and land use are the foundation on which the efficient operation of a market economy depends. This event highlighted the intricacies of building modern land…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office, Water and Urban Development Sector Office

ADB-Asian Think Tank Development Forum

20 to 21 September 2017
Cities have much potential that can help propel growth even beyond its boundaries. Looking at the current state of most cities in Asia and the Pacific region, however, financial gaps are still apparent. Underinvesting remains a problem. This was the context of 2017 ADB-Asia Think Thank Development…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department, South Asia Department

Congestion, Mobility, and Accessibility in Emerging Cities

22 February 2017
Gilles Duranton, professor and chair of Wharton School's Real Estate Department, spoke on urban congestion in emerging cities. He proposed an integrated framework to think about accessibility, mobility, and congestion consistently, and showed that progress can be made by combining economics with…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department, Transport Sector Office

2016 ADB-Asian Think Tank Development Forum

27 to 28 October 2016
With the theme, “Promoting Sustainable Urbanization in Asia and the Pacific”, the 2016 Asian Development Bank (ADB)-Asian Think Tank Development Forum gathered around 70 participants representing 24 countries in the region. Held in New Delhi India, this year's forum was co-organized by the National…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department

Joint Workshop for e-Government and Smart City

23 to 27 May 2016
Information and communications technology (ICT) has been used holistically to bolster financial and managerial capacities of local governments and municipal service providers; manage urban traffic, and increase the competence and autonomy of urban water supply, as well as sanitation and solid waste…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office, Water and Urban Development Sector Office

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