Sri Lanka Case Studies: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Integrated Energy Projects and Impacts Read more about Sri Lanka Case Studies: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Integrated Energy Projects and Impacts Learn about ADB’s energy sector portfolio in Sri Lanka. Read good practice examples that address poverty and gender equality and social inclusion considerations in Sri Lanka’s energy sector.
Care Foundation: Changing Lives through Education Read more about Care Foundation: Changing Lives through Education Pakistan has the second largest population of out-of-school children in the world. As a pioneer of public and private school partnerships, CARE Foundation contributes to resolving Pakistan’s education crisis by endeavoring to provide quality marketable education to all through its Government School Adoption Program, a model that is highly scalable, replicable, and cost effective.
Poverty and Social Analysis Training Read more about Poverty and Social Analysis Training The training provided an overview of the poverty and social analysis (PSA) documentation requirements. Participants were given the opportunity to engage with urban and social development specialists on key issues in the sector and learn how good PSA can support project design and implementation. They also worked on a case study exercise to develop the required documentation for IPSA.
Guntur Sugiyarto Keywords principal economist nvestment tourism economics labor markets poverty CGE modeling trade liberalization taxation commodity prices biofuel and food security education infrastructure fragility and migration Read more about Guntur Sugiyarto Guntur has published a significant number of papers on a wide range of development issues, such as competitiveness, investment, tourism economics, labor markets, poverty, CGE modeling, trade liberalization, taxation, commodity prices, biofuel and food security, education, infrastructure, fragility, and migration. Before joining ADB in 2004, he worked for the universities of Nottingham and Warwick in the United Kingdom and the Central Bureau of Statistics in Indonesia.
Information and Communication Technology for People Read more about Information and Communication Technology for People Information and communication technology (ICT) for people can help end poverty and hunger, ensure healthy lives and quality education, achieve gender equality, and provide water and sanitation for all. Sustainable Development Goals 1–6 see to people: they mean to end poverty and hunger, ensure healthy lives and quality education, achieve gender equality, and provide water and sanitation for all. ICT can quicken upscaling; cut deployment costs; augment awareness, inclusiveness, and engagement; stimulate connectivity, productivity, efficiency, and innovation; and raise quality.
Aya Suzuki Keywords Development economics agriculture poverty economics Read more about Aya Suzuki Aya Suzuki is a development economist and an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. Upon obtaining her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, she worked at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan before the current position. Her research focuses on analyzing the development of industries and agriculture in African and Asian countries, taking a quantitative approach. Her recent publications include “Willingness to Pay for Managerial Training: A Case from the Knitwear Industry in Northern Vietnam” in Journal of Comparative Economics.
Conditional Cash Transfers in the Philippines Read more about Conditional Cash Transfers in the Philippines ADB’s Karin Schelzig talked about the Pantawid Pamilya Conditional Cash Transfer program in this Insight Thursday session. She discussed how it benefits more than 4.5 million poor families, making it one of the region's largest social assistance programs. Ten years on, she delved into how it started, what works and what lies ahead.
Building Bridges: Conditional Cash Transfers in the Philippines Read more about Building Bridges: Conditional Cash Transfers in the Philippines This presentation provides a quick overview of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs, particularly the ultiamate goal and conditions. It highlights the experience of the Philippine government in rolling out its own CCT program called Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program.
Proof in: Poverty Can End. What are We Waiting for? Read more about Proof in: Poverty Can End. What are We Waiting for? Can we really end poverty? A model for eradicating extreme poverty developed by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee offers proof. According to the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee’s graduation model, addressing poverty reduction entails looking beyond microfinance. Extreme poverty requires a blend of synergistic measures to pull people out and sustain this independently over time. Developing holistic responses is essential as the world’s ultrapoor have multiple needs to meet.
Proof in: Poverty Can End. What are We Waiting for? Read more about Proof in: Poverty Can End. What are We Waiting for? ADB’s Betty Wilkinson discussed results of six randomized control trials of ultrapoor programs, and its implications for ADB developing member countries. She outlined a comprehensive approach that can boost livelihood, income, and health for one billion people who still live in extreme poverty. The research tested the effectiveness of an approach known as the “Graduation model” in six countries by following 21,000 of the world’s poorest people for three years. The data showed this approach led to large and lasting impacts on their standard of living.