Digital Technology to Increase Credit Access to MSMEs Challenge Read more about Digital Technology to Increase Credit Access to MSMEs Challenge This presentation gives a brief overview of the Digital Technology to Increase Credit Access to MSMEs Challenge under the #DigitalAgainstCOVID-19 Hackathon.
dData Read more about dData This presentation showcased dData, the winning team of the Nowcasting the Economic Impact of COVID-19 Challenge.
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.
Lakshman Nagraj Rao Keywords Nagraj Rao ERCD statistician Economics Research and Regional Cooperation Department ADB Read more about Lakshman Nagraj Rao Nagraj focuses on agricultural statistics, impact evaluation, poverty measurement and analysis, and methodological research on survey technology. Before joining ADB, he worked with the National Statistics Office in Liberia, and spearheaded Liberia’s first Household Income and Expenditure Survey. He was also Research Analyst and Impact Evaluation Coordinator in the World Bank’s Development Economics Research Group and Africa Education Unit, where he implemented household and agricultural panel surveys alongside supporting baseline activities for impact evaluations in Tanzania.
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.
Liming Chen Keywords Liming Chen Young Professional ERCD ADB Read more about Liming Chen Liming’s research interests include urban economics, transport infrastructure, and international trade. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, Santa Barbara, and his bachelor’s degree in economics from Fudan University, PRC.