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Bridging Gaps in Sustainability Data and Reporting

30 April 2025
Businesses must improve their reporting on greenhouse gas emissions, not just to meet regulations, but also for their own sustainability and growth. Can technology help small and medium firms bridge the sustainability data gap?
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department

Asian Development Policy Lecture - Caren Grown

26 March 2024
Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin showed economic growth did not always increase women’s workforce participation in the United States. Women’s work declined during the transition from agriculture to manufacturing but increased with greater jobs in the service sector. Despite progress, women continue…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department

Leveraging Social Media to Discern the Public Voice for Development

7 October 2022
Researchers and policymakers rely on timely, granular data to enhance the impact of analysis underlying policies to support development. The emergence of social media presents new opportunities for real-time data, but can it be harnessed for sustainable development? At this event, a panel of…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department

Mobilizing Taxes for Development in Asia

6 June 2022
Developing Asia has vast public spending needs to build a more inclusive, sustainable future for the region. How can authorities mobilize sufficient tax revenues fairly while still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic? The panelists shared their thoughts on the challenges, distributional…
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

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

Greenhouse Gas Inventories for Urban Operations in Southeast Asia

27 August 2015
Sonia Sandhu and Sameer Kamal of the Southeast Asia Department Urban Development and Water Division (SEUW) of ADB discussed the challenges and opportunities of accounting greenhouse gas emission of urban infrastructure projects, and incorporating GHG inventories into city investment planning…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office

Indian Cities in Aspirational Times

25 August 2015
GIZ Senior Advisor Aparna Daz presents the work done under the Inclusive Cities Partnership Program (ICCP) on various housing solution options for the urban poor. ICCP is a collaborative effort between the Government of India and GIZ India under a three-year cooperation, which started in November…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office