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UCCRTF: Economics of Urban Resilience

25 February 2021
Matt Savage talked about measuring the benefits of investing in urban infrastructure resilience. He used as case UCCRTF’s work on examining the economics of urban resilience, which aims to build a sound business case drawn from country and local- level studies.

Fighting Illicit Flows - A Collective Response

18 December 2020
Money laundering in the region is costing governments and economies billions, which could have been used for the development and social sector gains for its populations. Global Financial Integrity Policy Director Lakshmi Kumar discusses how much countries lose with illicit financial flows, and how…

Value for Money

11 December 2020
Learn more about Value for Money, and how ADB applies this approach through Strategic Procurement Planning.

Climate Sense on Resilient Infrastructure

9 December 2020
This presentation gives an overview of Climate Sense’s good practices and practical examples and standards in resilient infrastructure designs.

Climate Adjustments to Road Design

9 December 2020
This presentation shares Loughborough University’s practices and procedures for incorporating climate change allowances in design.

Optimizing Infrastructure Investments

9 December 2020
This presentation shares insights on Deltares’ resilient and nature-inclusive infrastructure.

Doing Business with ADB and the ADB Procurement System

9 December 2020
This presentation gives an overview of business opportunities at ADB and explains the ADB procurement framework.

Exposing Dirty Money: My 1 MDB Story

9 December 2020
Journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown discusses how the multibillion-dollar financial scandal of 1MDB unfolded, with its multiple red flags of financial transfers and fronting politically exposed persons involved. She notes in this presentation how it was seen as the largest kleptocracy investigation…

Early Warning Systems and Infrastructures

9 December 2020
This presentation gives an overview of the Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard EWS for Africa and Asia or RIMES.

Fireside Chat – A Precarious Path to Recovery

7 December 2020
Developing Asia will contract this year by 0.7%, its first contraction in six decades. Growth will rebound to 6.8% in 2021, but this implies only a partial recovery. The presentation discusses the risks that comes with this scenario such as the possibility of a prolonged pandemic; geopolitical…