Nowcasting the Economic Impact of COVID-19 Challenge Read more about Nowcasting the Economic Impact of COVID-19 Challenge This presentation gives a brief overview of the Nowcasting the Economic Impact of COVID-19 Challenge under the #DigitalAgainstCOVID-19 Hackathon.
Shaping the New Normal: #DigitalAgainstCOVID-19 ADB-AIM Hackathon 2020 Read more about Shaping the New Normal: #DigitalAgainstCOVID-19 ADB-AIM Hackathon 2020 This presentation gave an overview of ADB and AIM's joint #DigitalAgainstCOVID-19 Hackathon initiative.
#DigitalAgainstCOVID-19 Hackathon Winners Showcase Read more about #DigitalAgainstCOVID-19 Hackathon Winners Showcase ADB teamed up with the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) for a virtual challenge to crowdsource digital solutions for Asia and the Pacific economies reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Winners of the first two events presented their solutions to the questions of how to track the pandemic impacts in real-time and how to use technology to give smaller firms access to finance.
Asia's Journey to Prosperity—Past, Present, and Post-COVID-19 Read more about Asia's Journey to Prosperity—Past, Present, and Post-COVID-19
Restarting Economies and COVID-19 Control: Letting Loose without Letting Up Read more about Restarting Economies and COVID-19 Control: Letting Loose without Letting Up This presentation discussed the age-structured epidemiological model observing transmission of COVID-19, what researchers have learned from the earlier phase of the pandemic, and the implications of reopening up a country or region.
Letting Loose Without Letting Up: Global Evidence on Controlling COVID-19 Read more about Letting Loose Without Letting Up: Global Evidence on Controlling COVID-19 This presentation explored how effective the different measures are proving to be in controlling the spread of COVID-19, and which measures are associated with larger/smaller economic downturns by analyzing date from a number of economies on control measures, behavioral shifts, and COVID-19 spread.
Restarting Economies and COVID-19 Control: Letting Loose Without Letting Up Read more about Restarting Economies and COVID-19 Control: Letting Loose Without Letting Up Lockdowns have helped restrict COVID-19 transmission but at a terrible cost for business activity and people’s livelihoods. Policymakers need to know: How can we reopen our economies while keeping this disease in check?
Emerging Markets in a Time of Pandemic Read more about Emerging Markets in a Time of Pandemic This presentation discussed lessons from the Asian financial crisis in relation to currency and maturity mismatches that are still applicable to the current context, and why Asian banks are still vulnerable to US dollar funding risks.
COVID-19 Exposes Asian Banks' Vulnerability to US Dollar Funding Read more about COVID-19 Exposes Asian Banks' Vulnerability to US Dollar Funding This presentation examined how dollar liquidity strains during the COVID-19 pandemic exhibits a similar pattern to the global financial crisis, the implications of Asian banks' exposure to US dollar funding, and explored policy considerations for Asia.