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Welcome Remarks - High-Level Seminar: How Can the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Regional Cooperation Drive Cambodia’s Structural Transformation?

2 November 2018
Technologies embedded in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and uncertainties in the international trade environment could drive structural transformation for long-term growth. In his welcome remarks, Ramesh Subramaniam, Director General of ADB’s Southeast Asia Department, highlighted how these…

Australian Economic Outlook

22 August 2018
Australia is enjoying its 25th straight year of economic growth. Risks could arise from increasing housing prices and household debt, and weak growth in wages and household incomes. Investment remains subdued, and growth is more reliant on government spending and net exports.

Social Protection in a Competitive Economy: What Have We Learned?

22 August 2018
Australia has a well-targeted welfare system. Gross income is unequal, but taxes and transfers make it more equal, and government invests a lot in health and education. However, the government should also consider privatization, active regulatory oversight, and incentives to inform market design.

Changing Task Content of Jobs in India: Implications and Way Forward

22 August 2018
The number of non-routine cognitive jobs has surged in India, driven by technology and mostly contributed by the services sector. Routine cognitive tasks, however, remain at the same level in services and agriculture.

(People’s Republic of) China’s Economic Outlook and the China-US Trade Disputes

22 August 2018
The People’s Republic of China saw steady economic momentum in the first half of 2018. Aware of potential uncertainties from domestic and international shocks, including the trade dispute with the US, the country has taken a proactive fiscal policy and measures to further open its market and…

Special Olympics Overview

19 July 2018
More than 200 million people with intellectual disability face ongoing discrimination in healthcare, education, and employment. Special Olympics uses sports as a vehicle for change to achieve its vision of creating smart cities wherein all communities and cities are active and inclusive of…

Early Life Health Shocks: Can Policy Interventions Help?

5 July 2018
Learn how early life health environment affects human capital accumulation in developing countries. It is well-documented that children who are hit by negative health shocks early in life can suffer long-term disadvantages, in terms of health, education, and labor market outcomes. This presentation…

Paying Primary Care through National Health Insurance

25 June 2018
ADB's Eduardo Banzon discussed the role of national health insurance (NHI) in expanding primary care services in Asia. He also described the implementation steps needed to enable NHI paying for primary care, analyzed the bottlenecks and barriers of NHI coverage of primary care, and identified…

Video: Health Care

23 May 2018
This session video discusses how blockchain can facilitate the provision of quality and confidential health care.

Demographics and Innovation

18 May 2018
Are younger labor forces more innovative? The authors attempt to answer this question using the native-born labor force projected based on local historical births in the US. They used three successive levels of analysis to eliminate or examine effects such as firm and inventor life cycles. They…