Asia's Developing Future

In this podcast, ADBI Senior Consulting Specialist for Capacity Building and Training Projects, KE Seetha Ram explains the growing pressure on municipal governments to address increasingly large amounts of diverse waste and innovative management approaches that are being adopted in Asia and the Pacific.

The views in this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI).

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ADBI’s related publications

Water Insecurity and Sanitation in Asia

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Achieving Sustainable Sanitation in Asia

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Quantifying the Economic Spillover Effect for Citywide Fecal Sludge Management Programs

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ADBI recently hosted policy makers and researchers for a workshop examining the investment, policy, and economic impacts of green infrastructure and finance development in Asia. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Assistant Professor Hao Zhang was among the experts featured at the event. Afterwards, Zhang sat down with Asia’s Developing Future to discuss why the People’s Republic of China has quickly emerged as a leading green bond issuing country and its policy implications.

The views in this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI).

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ADBI’s related publications

Handbook of Green Finance: Energy Security and Sustainable Development

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Why Is Green Finance Important?

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Green Finance in Singapore: Barriers and Solutions

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Green Bond Experience in the Nordic Countries

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ADBI will launch the new book Central Bank Digital Currencies and Fintech in Asia at the 2019 ADBI Annual Conference in Tokyo. In this podcast, ADBI Research Fellow and co-editor, Bihong Huang provides an overview of the book and its unique insights.

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ADBI’s related publications

Central Bank Digital Currency and Fintech in Asia

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ADBI recently launched the new book “Achieving Energy Security in Asia: Diversification, Integration and Policy Implications” at ADBI in Tokyo. In this podcast, co-editor Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary of Waseda University and Dayong Zhang of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, a discussant at the launch, provide an overview of the book and its unique insights.

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ADBI’s related publications

Achieving Energy Security in Asia: Diversification, Integration and Policy Implications

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Demand for infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific is surging and so too is the need to train the next generation of workers to construct and manage new infrastructure projects. In this podcast, Dr Sudhir Misra of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur discusses the skills gap in civil engineering in India, the importance of overcoming this common challenge to infrastructure growth and sustainable development in the region, and how it can be practically achieved.

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About the author

Sudhir Misra, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

ADBI’s related publications

Is There a Size-Induced Market Failure in Skills Training?

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Skills Training by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Innovative Cases and the Consortium Approach in the Republic of Korea

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Building Development Capacities in Asia and the Pacific: Good Practices and Ways Forward for ADBI’s Capacity Building Programs

https://bit.ly/36AXSX6

Principles of Infrastructure: Case Studies and Best Practices

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Ulrich Volz of SOAS University of London recently visited ADBI to discuss his survey findings of 18 Asia Pacific central banks and regulatory authorities on the importance of incorporating climate and environmental risk into their operations and its potential role in scaling up green finance.

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About the author

Ulrich Volz is the Head of the Department of Economics and Reader in Economics, SOAS, University of London.

ADBI’s recent publications on green finance

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In this podcast, Bank of Papua New Guinea Governor Loi Bakani discusses how his country is leveraging technology to increase financial services access and use to fight poverty and improve living

standards.

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About the author

Loi Bakani is the Governor of the Bank of Papua New Guinea.

ADBI’s recent publications on financial education

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Lowering trade restrictions makes countries richer and in general, that’s good for everyone. But there are winners and losers from trade, especially as economies adjust to freer trade.

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About the author

Devashish Mitra is a professor of economics at Syracuse University in the United States.

ADBI’s recent publications on trade

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The 1990s and 2000s was a golden age for manufacturing in Asia, when economies across the region became important players in the burgeoning supply chains that now dominate global trade. Manufacturing boomed, but that is only half the story.

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About the author

Ben Shepherd is the principal of Developing Trade Consultants.

ADBI’s recent publications on services

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Dr Neil Ruiz of the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC discusses new survey findings on what the public in 27 nations thinks about immigration and provides a demographic analysis of migration patterns at ADBI in Tokyo.

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About the author

Dr Neil Ruiz of the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC

ADBI website

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ADBI’s recent publications on migration

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