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Sustainable Finance - A Key to Greening the Business Ecosystem

19 March 2025
The “Serendipity Knowledge Program” (SKOP) is ADB’s knowledge program dedicated to Sri Lanka. It is designed to effectively respond to the country’s needs in line with ADB's vision of being a knowledge solutions bank. SKOP seeks to share knowledge on issues relevant to Sri Lanka and facilitate…
Organizer: South Asia Department

Rethinking Skills for Women in the Evolving Labor Market

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

How to Become an Entrepreneur

19 February 2025
The seminar launched a new learning portal on Digital Entrepreneurship in Asia, which provides key principles and practices shaping businesses in the digital age. The new portal also explores business model innovation, digital transformation, and case studies from the Asian context. Designed for…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department

Event 4: Build Back Better Sector Dialogue: Irrigated Agriculture

10 February 2025
The fourth webinar will explore good practice solutions, considerations, and lessons learned for building back better agriculture systems, featuring a case study on how Viet Nam strengthened the resilience of its irrigation systems and rural livelihoods following successive droughts.  
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Mapping the Unpaid Care Work Economy in Asia

29 January 2025
Aging populations in Asia face a potential care crisis, with gaps in old-age care emerging. This webinar explores current care patterns, the significant role of women—especially older women—in unpaid caregiving, and future projections. Insights will guide policy strategies to address old-age care…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department

Event 3: Build Back Better Sector Dialogue: Power

28 January 2025
The third webinar explored good practice solutions, considerations, and lessons learned for building back better power systems, featuring a case study of the recovery and reconstruction of Tonga's power network following Cyclone Gita.
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Climate Change Perceptions in Asia

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

Event 2: Build Back Better Sector Dialogue: Transport

17 December 2024
The second webinar explored good practice solutions, considerations, and lessons learned for building back better in the transport sector, featuring a Palu Bay Port masterplan and reconstruction case study.
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Designing Competition Policy for Economic Development

16 December 2024
In this joint webinar of the Asian Impact Webinars and Competition Policy Dialogues, we examined the critical role of competition policy in national economic development. Drawing from the findings of the book Designing Competition Policy for Economic Development in Asia and the Pacific, speakers…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department

Unveiling Insights from the Indonesia Longitudinal Ageing Survey (ILAS) 2023

13 December 2024
Indonesia Longitudinal Ageing Survey (ILAS) 2023 is the first survey in Indonesia to provide representative and comprehensive information on the demographics, social and economic conditions, health status, and living environment of current and future cohorts of older people. The webinar presented…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department