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Global Shortage of Personal Protective Equipment amid COVID-19: Supply Chains, Bottlenecks, and Policy Implications

4 June 2020
This presentation discussed the unprecedented excess demand for PPEs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to domestic and international PPE supply chain disruptions and put frontline healthcare workers at risk. It also discussed various trade barriers to PPE supply, how governments ramped up PPE…

gLOCAL Insights: Support to Sustainable Transport Solutions in light of the COVID-19 Crisis

3 June 2020
This presentation discussed key findings from the assessment of ADB's transport support between 2010 to 2018, and presented six recommendations on how ADB can further strengthen the development support of its ADB transport interventions.

High-Speed Rail Systems Deployment and Megacity Formation: The MITO and ROSA Case Studies in Italy

18 March 2020
Examining the case of high-speed rail (HSR )serviced city pairs of Milano-Torino and Roma-Salerno in Italy, this paper attempts to understand and explore the relationship between megacity formation and High-Speed Rail deployment. The paper proposes a model to explain the mechanisms through which…

Mainstreaming Environment-Socioeconomic Interlinkages into the National Development Policies in Mongolia: A Tool

28 November 2019
This presentation discusses a case study on how the government of Mongolia developed a tool which helps mainstream environment and socio-economic linkages into the country's national development policies.

Accelerating SDG Implementation through Green Finance

28 November 2019
This presentation discusses the UN Environment's work on promoting green finance. It also underscores the importance of developing a National Green Finance Roadmap, and gives some guidance on how to develop such a roadmap.

Book Chapter Overview: The Past and Future Role of Asia’s Infrastructure in Development

21 November 2019
This presentation gave an overview of Chapter 1 of the publication, "Infrastructure Financing in Asia", which examined how infrastructure conditions vary across countries in Asia and discussed policy actions for meeting infrastructure investment needs. It also established that without climate…

Book Chapter Overview: Why Institutions Matter for Closing Asia’s Infrastructure Financing Gap

21 November 2019
This presentation gave an overview of Chapter 2 of the publication, "Infrastructure Financing in Asia". It examined the types of infrastructure financing methods as well as their enabling institutions.

PHOTO GALLERY - Book Launch: Infrastructure Financing in Asia

29 October 2019
Selected photos from the Book Launch of the publication, "Infrastructure Financing in Asia" held on 29 October 2019 at the University of the Philippines in Manila, Philippines; on 21 November at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy University in Baku, Azerbaijan; and on 25 November at the Asian…

Infrastructure Financing in Asia

29 October 2019
This presentation gives a brief overview of the book, "Infrastructure Financing in Asia", a collection of papers which aims to give insights and guidance for policymakers and researchers about what Asia needs to do to mobilize financing for infrastructure. It also includes an overview of all 11…

Actions on Reducing Air Pollution (Mongolian)

29 October 2019
This presentation gave an overview of the state of air quality in Mongolia and the government's national program on reducing air and environmental pollution.