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29 May 2025
Findings from a 2023 household survey conducted in Southeast Asia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia showed that both regions had significant levels of food insecurity, with Southeast Asia showing more severe conditions. Among the various coping strategies adopted by households, only applying for…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
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
14 March 2025
Women’s labor market attachment remains weak in many developing economies, even as the gender gap in education disappears. The case of Indonesia provides helpful insights into the problem. As national labor force data show, many women enter wage employment in their early 20s, only to drop out…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
16 January 2025
Public perceptions can play a key role in either driving or hindering reform efforts. For the Asia-Pacific Climate Report 2024, ADB surveyed about 13,500 residents across 14 Asian economies. The survey aimed to understand public views on climate change, awareness of government actions,…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
31 October 2024
To support developing Asia and the Pacific in combating climate change through policy reforms, the Asian Development Bank launched a new knowledge series: the Asia-Pacific Climate Report. This inaugural issue offered an overview of the region’s evolving climate landscape, including updated…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
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
8 June 2023
Developing Asia is highly vulnerable to climate change, even as it is an increasing contributor to the global climate crisis. This webinar explored what a transition to global net zero emissions could mean for the region’s key mitigating sectors and its socioeconomic implications.
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
15 February 2023
Trade and investment play an outsized role in the economic development of the Asia and Pacific region, but it has come with unintended environmental costs. Asia and the Pacific are on the frontline of climate change and are responsible for about half of global annual carbon dioxide emissions.
The…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
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
15 to 16 June 2022
The OECD-AMRO-ADB/ADBI-ERIA Asian Regional Roundtable convened leading experts to discuss issues at the fore of recent economic developments in the region. Previous roundtables were held in Singapore, Manila, Tokyo, Jakarta, and most recently virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent topics…
Organizer: ADBI, Economic Research and Development Impact Department