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Skills Development Funds: Country Experiences and Implications for South Asia

15 December 2016
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET), in general, equips workforce with lifelong and technical skills that are required from employers. One of the ways to finance TVET is by setting up a dedicated fund for skills development, known as skills development fund.

Universal Health Coverage: Myths and Challenges

15 November 2016
ADB's Soonman Kwon examines the current status, misunderstandings, and key policy issues and challenges for ADB's developing member countries to achieve universal health coverage, ensuring access by everyone to quality health services without financial hardship.

Innovative ICT Classroom Project

11 November 2016
A project of the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Education and Korea Education Frontier Association, the Innovative ICT-based Pilot Classroom was developed with the aim to build ICT-based classrooms with state-of-the-art ICT equipment for primary and secondary schools.

Shaping the Future of Education with Technology: Comparison of Korea and Singapore for ICT in Education

11 November 2016
The Republic of Korea and Singapore have enacted systemic and systematic policies to bring new forms of teaching and learning practices in schools. ICT has been employed not only as a pedagogical tool but also as a catalyst to prepare the competitive workforce in the knowledge economy.

Universal Health Coverage: Myths and Challenges

10 November 2016
Many developing countries experience numerous challenges in ensuring people's access to quality health services. ADB's Soonman Kwon examines the key policy issues surrounding ADB developing member countries' efforts to achieve universal health coverage. This short video highlights key moments on…

Universal Health Coverage: Myths and Challenges

10 November 2016
ADB's Soonman Kwon examines the current status, misunderstandings, and key policy issues and challenges for ADB's developing member countries to achieve universal health coverage, ensuring access by everyone to quality health services without financial hardship. This video covers the full session…

Publication - Monitoring Universal Health Coverage in the Western Pacific: Framework, Indicators, and Dashboard

10 November 2016
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have a clear focus on equity-focused monitoring and evaluation to ensure that no one is left behind. The United Nations member states have agreed on a range of indicators to track progress toward health for all in the SDGs. Universal health coverage is a…

Publication - Health Care Financing in Asia: Key Issues and Challenges

10 November 2016
This article examines the major elements of health care financing such as financial risk protection, resource generation, resource pooling, and purchasing and payment; provides key lessons; and discusses the challenges for health care financing systems of Asian countries. With the exception of…

Trends and Development of ICT in Education Policy

10 November 2016
Despite a countless number of national-level ICT in education policy initiatives in the last decade, cases of successful integration of ICT that have led to enhancing teaching and learning in school still remain an exception than the norm. A suggested practical procedure for developing a national…

MathCloud in the World

10 November 2016
MathCloud is considered as the ultimate solution for students struggling in mathematics. This presentation shows MathCloud's effectiveness in Asia and expansion to other developing member countries. It also shares the effect of MathCloud in US schools and feedback by school administrators.