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28 March 2023
Rapid urbanization, high population density, and chronic traffic congestion have increased the importance of transport infrastructure development in Asia’s cities, with new opportunities to adopt digital tools such as cloud technology, artificial intelligence, and GPS systems that can streamline…
Organizer: ADBI
15 March 2023
This webinar spotlighted new research by Ben Charoenwong of the National University of Singapore Business School which explored the social and economic costs of local government debt, drawing upon a dataset of over a million local government procurement contracts in the People’s Republic of China…
Organizer: ADBI
15 to 18 March 2023
ADB has set a steep cumulative investment target of $100 billion by 2030 since 2019 and committed to align all its investments with the Paris Agreement by July 2023 for all sovereign investments and 85% of non-sovereign investments. This training aims to assist ADB project teams and DMC project…
Organizer: Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
17 February 2023
This is a recording of the Good Enough Guide to On-Site Sanitation in the Pacific training delivered by the Asian Development Bank at the Water and WASH Futures Conference in Brisbane, Australia in February 2023.
This training, targeted at WASH practitioners, explores the principles underpinning…
Organizer: Pacific 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
2 February 2023
The built environment and the construction industry are major contributors to the planet's greatest environmental challenges - plastic waste and carbon emissions. There is a common misconception that these are separate and unrelated issues. However, they are very much interdependent, and we…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Energy Sector Office, Water and Urban Development Sector Office
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
18 to 20 January 2023
Since 2019, the annual Asian Development Bank (ADB) Economists’ Forum has served as a platform for economists and staff to present and discuss original research, network, and learn cutting-edge techniques.
The forum aimed to raise the profile and quality of ADB research while providing an…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
8 December 2022
The session is about Mill, Hong Kong, China’s first beverage carton recycling pulp mill and education center. The center can process up to about 50 tons of beverage cartons daily and turn them into recycled paper pulp. At the same time, it can also recycle all kinds of wastepaper (composite-…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Water and Urban Development Sector Office
7 to 9 December 2022
Digital transformation is central to enhancing economies’ productivity, competitiveness, and sustainable development. Digital finance and trade play an important role in these dynamics, with sound and efficient domestic and cross-border digital payments systems increasingly crucial for reducing…
Organizer: ADBI