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7th ADB-ADBI-OECD-ILO Roundtable on Labor Migration: Increasing the Positive Impact of Migration Through Finance and Technology

18 to 19 January 2017
Remittances are one of the driving factors for labor migration, especially within Asia. Of the $581 billion global remittances recorded in 2015, around 75% or $432 billion came from developing countries, particularly East Asia, the Pacific, and South Asia. Remittances by migrants from developing…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office

Economic Corridor Development: Putting Concept into Action

8 December 2016
The Visakhapatnam–Chennai Industrial Corridor Development Program is expected to stimulate economic growth in India. In this Insight Thursday session, ADB's Manoj Sharma discussed the program, comprised of a multitranche financing facility, a policy-based loan, an urban climate change resilience…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

5th International Conference on Eco-Compensation and Payments for Ecosystem Services

24 to 25 November 2016
The 2016 international eco-compensation conference provided a platform for discussing innovations, developments, and lessons in implementing eco-compensation and payments for ecosystem services in the People’s Republic of China and other countries. Over 150 representatives from ADB developing…
Organizer: East Asia Department, Water and Urban Development Sector Office

Driving Business by Building Better Trade Portals

19 September 2016
PM Group’s Chris Lewis-Jones presented on designing, building, and launching trade information portals (TIPs) in this learning event organized by Asian Development Bank's Board of Directors. TIPs are a one-stop shop where cross-border trade rules, regulations, procedures, and processes are gathered…
Organizer: Board of Directors

ADB Transport Forum 2016

12 to 16 September 2016
Sustainable Transport for All is the world’s new ambition for transport, as reflected in the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. Asia and the Pacific will be pivotal in mainstreaming sustainable transport. The region is home to majority of the world’s population…
Organizer: Transport Sector Office

Brown Bag Session: Comparative Study of Small and Medium Enterprise Development in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

26 August 2016
Drastic changes happened with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, including the transition from central planned to a market-based economy. In a brown bag session, Lyubov Tsoy, intern at Asian Development Bank's Public Management, Finance, Sector, and Trade Division of the Central and…
Organizer: Central and West Asia Department

Conditional Cash Transfers in the Philippines

31 March 2016
ADB’s Karin Schelzig talked about the Pantawid Pamilya Conditional Cash Transfer program in this Insight Thursday session. She discussed how it benefits more than 4.5 million poor families, making it one of the region's largest social assistance programs. Ten years on, she delved into how it…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Trade Facilitation and Customs Modernization

1 March 2016
Two private companies, Japan's Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System Center and NTT Data, shared their respective business models and how they can potentially contribute to trade facilitation and customs modernization in Asia and the Pacific.
Organizer: Regional Cooperation and Integration, and Trade Division, Southeast Asia Department

Proof in: Poverty Can End. What are We Waiting for?

18 June 2015
ADB’s Betty Wilkinson discussed results of six randomized control trials of ultrapoor programs, and its implications for ADB developing member countries. She outlined a comprehensive approach that can boost livelihood, income, and health for one billion people who still live in extreme poverty. The…
Organizer: Central and West Asia Department, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Rx: The Value of Communication in Health Projects

26 February 2015
ADB’s Second Urban Primary Health Care Project used communication and social mobilization for Bangladesh's urban poor to adopt home-based healthy behavior and seek services for infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS control, nutrition, and sanitation. Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs in this…
Organizer: Department of Communications and Knowledge Management