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Winners of the 2025 ADBIEA Innovative Policy Research Award

5 May 2025
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Economic Association (IEA) are pleased to announce the three (3) best papers for the 2025 ADB–IEA Innovative Policy Research Award. The award-winning papers were selected from over 80 papers covering a wide range of economic topics. Each award…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department, Independent Evaluation Department

Rethinking Poverty Strengthening ADBs Approach for an Inclusive and Equitable Future

14 April 2025
Background Economic growth has fundamentally changed lives in Asia and the Pacific, lifting more than 1.5 billion people out of poverty over just two generations. In only one generation, poverty rates in our region dropped from 75% of the population to less than 10%. A new middle class now enjoys…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office

Integrity Learning Series Lao PDR Anticorruption and Integrity Training

13 March 2025
On 13 March 2025, three representatives from the Lao People's Democratic Republic's Department of Water Supply joined a hybrid briefing on ADB's anticorruption and integrity framework. Organized by Sectors Department 2, the session covered integrity risks, red flags, and strategies for…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity

Integrity Learning Series Marshall Islands Anticorruption and Integrity Training

5 March 2025
On 5 March 2025, 10 representatives from the Integrated Urban Services and Resilience Improvement Project in Marshall Islands learned about ADB's anticorruption and integrity framework at a hybrid briefing, as part of an inception mission organized by the Sectors Group. The session covered…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity

Integrity Learning Series India ADB Procurement Procedures

4 March 2025
ADB OAI's integrity learning session for Executing and Implementing Agencies in India. OAI provides training tailored for participants exercising oversight functions and project responsibility under RETA 10349's Integrity Learning Series.
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity

Driving Power Sector Reforms for Enhanced Renewable Energy Growth and Sector Performance

30 January 2025
The “Serendipity Knowledge Program” (SKOP) was ADB’s knowledge program dedicated to Sri Lanka, designed to respond effectively to the country’s needs. It aligned with ADB's vision as a knowledge solutions bank. SKOP sought to share knowledge on issues relevant to Sri Lanka and facilitate…
Organizer: South Asia Department

Data Room Safeguard Policy Review and Update

30 January 2025
Environmental and Social Framework Approved by ADB’s Board of Directors in 22 November 2024, the Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) builds on the findings and recommendations of ADB’s corporate evaluation of its 2009 Safeguard Policy Statement (SPS), detailed analytical studies, and…
Organizer: Office of Safeguards

Webinar Countering Tax Treaty Abuse through the Principal Purpose Test

5 November 2024
In 2015, the OECD released its final report on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action 6. Among several new rules, the report introduced the Principal Purpose Test (PPT), as a minimum standard, the counter tax treaty abuse. Since then, the PPT has been incorporated in more than 1,000 tax…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity

2024 AntiCorruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Seminar Government Incentives for Corporate AntiCorruption Compliance

25 to 27 September 2024
ADB and OECD, co-secretariats of the Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific (ACI), in collaboration with the Anti-Corruption Commission of Bhutan and the Royal Government of Bhutan, held the 2024 ACI regional seminar on 25-27 September 2024, in Thimphu, Bhutan. The seminar focused on…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity

Integrity Learning Series Nepal Implementing and Executing Agencies

25 September 2024
On 25 September 2024, OAI delivered two knowledge-sharing sessions in Kathmandu as part of its Integrity Learning Series. The first training for 29 representatives from Nepal's executing and implementing agencies focused on recognizing red flags and reducing corruption risks in ADB projects through…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity