Babur Wasim

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Babur Wasim is an economist with more than 15 years of experience in the development sector, focusing on agriculture economics, job creation for marginalized labour, and designing impact evaluation studies. His expertise includes project development, project costing, and economic analysis, along with methodologies for project progress monitoring and impact evaluation. He has worked in seven countries on projects funded by various entities including the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, USAID, covering themes like agriculture development, poverty reduction and microfinance.

Carolina de Miranda

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International development professional with over 10 years of experience. Focus on social protection systems, particularly with regards to poverty reduction policy and programming, livelihoods promotion, and women's empowerment. Extensive experience coordinating economic inclusion programs at the national and local level in partnership with public and private actors in Latin America. Passionate about the use of digital technologies for social impact.

Conference on Rural Economic Transformation: Pathways to Inclusive and Sustainable Prosperity in Post-COVID-19 Asia

Decades of strong growth in Asia and the Pacific may help economies in the region recover more swiftly from the COVID-19 pandemic, but uneven recovery threatens to undermine hard-won poverty reduction and will require new ways to achieve inclusive and sustainable prosperity after the pandemic. This is particularly true for rural localities where economic opportunities, aspirations, and policy support remain lacking.

Vivi Yulaswati

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Vivi Yulaswati is the senior advisor to the Minister of National Development Planning for Social Affairs and Poverty Reduction. Her main responsibility is to do analysis and provide advice to the minister on social and poverty reduction related issues, policies, and strategies. She currently leads the National Secretariat for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She has extensive experience in designing major poverty reduction programs in Indonesia, including community driven development, conditional cash transfer, and some subsidy reforms.

Lessons from COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific, ADB’s response, and Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility (APVAX): A conversation with ADB experts

via Zoom

Developing Asia and the Pacific has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, threatening hard-won gains in poverty reduction and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals – millions of people have been infected with COVID19 and regional economic output contracted for the first time since the 1960s.

Interactive Panel Discussion: Bridging the Climate Finance Gap at Local Level

Held via Zoom.

This online event highlighted the importance of climate adaptation finance reaching the local level, especially the poor and vulnerable communities who are the hardest hit by the impacts of climate change. The session discussed lessons from the ADB Resilient Communities Development project in Myanmar and Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund’s (UCCRTF) experiences.

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