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Industry 4.0: What Internal Auditors Need to Know

22 November 2018
This presentation provides an overview of how monitoring control can be done within Industry 4.0. It also presents cases of artificial intelligence practices that help enhance competitiveness.

Industry 4.0: What Internal Auditors Need to Know

22 November 2018
This presentation provides an overview of how monitoring control can be done within Industry 4.0. It also presents cases of artificial intelligence practices that help enhance competitiveness.

Using Knowledge From an Impact Evaluation: An Example of Water Supply in Nepal

7 November 2018
Learn how to use knowledge generated from an impact evaluation study. This presentation features a case example of an ADB-assisted water supply project in Nepal.

Learning from Evaluation

7 November 2018
ADB conducts evaluation work to ensure accountability, promote learning, and maximize development effectiveness. This presentation examines how ADB can better integrate artificial intelligence in its operations. It also explores Watson, a technology that can help ADB ingest thousands of documents…

Does Loan Influence Policy?

7 November 2018
This presentation examines whether ADB is able to influence policies by providing loans. An ideal case scenario is presented.

How to Capture Knowledge Transfer through Technical Assistance

7 November 2018
ADB’s Independent Evaluation Department (IED) will soon rate the Bank’s technical assistance (TA) project results. In assessing TAs, IED proposes the inclusion of operational learning and development effectiveness, knowledge building, partner satisfaction, replication/scaling up, and post-TA…

Social Development Issues in the Urban Sector

10 October 2018
Urban poverty has four major dimensions that reinforce each other. These are income and social poverty, environmental poverty, education poverty, and health poverty. These dimensions encompass issues such as employment insecurity, lack of access to opportunities and basic services, hazardous…

Vocational Training and Labor Market Transition: A Randomized Experiment among Cambodian Disadvantaged Young Adults

23 August 2018
In Cambodia, a trial provided two-month training in housekeeping, with incentives, to low-income young adults in Phnom Penh. The program found that training had no effects on employment outcomes, and it was not enough for disadvantaged youth to break into the labor market.

Towards Integrated Programs and Database for Social Protection Programs in Indonesia

18 May 2018
Indonesia faces several challenges in financing SDGs. These include lack of common understanding on standardized indicators among pertinent government agencies, lack of political consensus, and lack of civil society participation. This presentation shares recommendations on how the country can…

Fiscal Challenges and Social Welfare Reform in Mongolia

18 May 2018
Mongolia has been facing various economic challenges in recent years. Its gross domestic product growth decelerated, its fiscal deficit widened, and government debt decreased. It needs to ramp up its social protection programs to assist the poor and most vulnerable.