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ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar: New Zealand Infrastructure Commission Board Chair Alan Bollard on the Role of Infrastructure in COVID-19 Recovery

7 July 2021
This ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar presented New Zealand Infrastructure Commission Board Chair Alan Bollard, who examined the role of infrastructure in COVID-19 recovery in New Zealand and wider Asia and the Pacific with ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe and a panel of experts. Drawing upon his experience…
Organizer: ADBI

ADB’s Development Effectiveness in 2020: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Europe)

30 June 2021
How has the Asian Development Bank (ADB) responded to the human and economic challenges triggered by the COVID 19 pandemic? This event was an interactive discussion of the 2020 Development Effectiveness review, a reflection on ADB’s efforts to achieve the priorities set out in its corporate…
Organizer: European Representative Office

Guarantee Insurance Scheme for SMEs

25 June 2021
Guarantee insurance schemes and products such as surety bonds have reduced credit risk embedded in businesses of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and have helped expand SMEs' participation in economic activities. This webinar shared lessons from ROK's experience in guaranteeing insurance…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office

Healthy and Age-Friendly Cities - Best Practices Around the World

23 June 2021
via Zoom Cities need to optimize public health benefits and enable and promote a healthy, pleasant, safe, engaging life for four-generation urban communities. This has become even more urgently needed during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The demographic change requires age-inclusive urban…
Organizer: East Asia Department

Finance SG Webinar: Lessons Learned from Fintech and Regulatory Innovation Online Course

10 June 2021
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance Online Course on Fintech & Regulatory Innovation built knowledge and capacity in technology-enabled financial and regulatory innovation for the policymaking and regulatory community. Topics covered foundational technologies in fintech, banking…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office

Knowledge Product Launch: Leveraging Data for Urban Design and Planning in Post-COVID Cities

8 June 2021
The disastrous effects of the current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic underline the importance of integrating public health considerations in planning resilient cities. That effort begins with understanding how the pandemic has been interacting with cities over the past year. Many cities…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar: Greg Marsden on COVID-19 Era Travel Behavior and its Policy Implications in the United Kingdom

7 June 2021
This webinar featured Greg Marsden of the University of Leeds Institute of Transport Studies who presented findings from a longitudinal study of COVID-19 era travel behavior and policy in the United Kingdom. He described pandemic-driven macro-travel trends and behaviors in ten areas of England and…
Organizer: ADBI

ADBI-JARTS-IIT Learning Series on High-Speed Rail Session 1: Megaproject Governance and Innovation

3 June 2021
Greater high-speed rail development in Asia will require policymakers and industry partners to navigate complex planning, design, construction, operational, and maintenance issues, as well as increasingly challenging domestic socioeconomic and political conditions as a result of the COVID-19…
Organizer: ADBI

Webinar on Digital Platforms and Cambodia’s Post-Covid-19 Economic Recovery

28 May 2021
ADB recently published a flagship report titled Asia Economic Integration Report 2021: Making Digital Platforms Work for Asia and the Pacific. The report looks at how regional economies can recover from COVID-19 by leveraging new technologies such as digital platforms and increasing services…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

Digital Entrepreneurship for Economic Resilience

26 May 2021
Nurturing Asia’s digital entrepreneurs’ potential is the key to unlocking economic resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the long-term capacity for green and inclusive development. What have we learned from best practices, conducive regulatory environments, and supportive…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department