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The Asian Development Bank Institute (adbi.org), Tokyo, is the think tank of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila. It is the top regional studies center and the second-ranked government-...
From Japan’s aging lessons to unlocking the demographic dividend in South Asia, Rohini Somanathan, Professor and Head of the Economics Depar...
Industrial policy plays a central role in shaping how economies grow—but the sectors governments support, the firms they finance, and the sk...
Asia’s economic rise has been built on trade, but with the global trading system undergoing structural transformation could digital trade de...
What does it take for developing economies in Asia and the Pacific to grow, move beyond middle-income status and cope with today’s global ch...
What does it take to develop effective policymakers in today’s turbulent geopolitical climate? Professor Francis Fukuyama joined ADBI Dean B...
Court battles can drag on for years, but what if major cross-border disputes could be solved in just days? Nadja Alexander, Director of the...
How is AI reshaping the future of work across Asia and the Pacific? In this episode, journalist Michael Beltran and Professor Mohammad Jarra...
Dr. K.E. Seetharam, Senior Consulting Specialist at the Asian Development Bank Institute, and Dr. Sakshi Pandey of the Capacity Building Com...
With global fragmentation on the rise, ADBI Dean Bambang Brodjonegoro and ADB Vice-President for East and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific, S...
As scams and cybercrime soar in the digital age, financial crime has become a moving target. Shawn Hunter, research fellow at Griffith Asia...
In this episode of Asia’s Developing Future, Daniel Suryadarma and Takiko Igarashi from ADB Institute explore how Asia can tackle its growin...
Governments are some of the biggest buyers of construction services, putting them in a powerful position to shape a more sustainable future....
Globally, smallholder farmers account for over 80% of farms and are estimated to produce around one-third of the world's food, but with clim...
If you don’t know what InsurTech is, you should. Listen to global insurance expert Susan Holliday explain how this dynamic area of FinTech i...
How can smart ports drive sustainability and development? ADB’s Yesim Elhan-Kayalar and maritime expert Eleanor Hadland explore how AI and o...
Estimates suggest that only 15% of Asian assets have appropriate coverage for disaster risks. How can these “protection gaps” be filled? Yos...
The first World Conference on Creative Economy, held in Indonesia in 2018, paved the way by emphasizing the critical role of creativity in d...
Climate change is likely to have catastrophic repercussions on human health, with health costs amounting to between $2 billion - to $4 billi...
Cutting-edge technology alone can’t solve the existing and emerging issues of water resources management. That’s why in this episode of Asia...
Join independent science journalist Disha Shetty, recent winner of ADBI’s Developing Asia Journalism Awards, and Suling Lin, senior columnis...
Hybrid working is a win-win for employers and employees, says Professor Nicholas Bloom, but why hasn’t it taken off in many parts Asia and t...
From machine learning to Blockchain, clean tech organizations are exploring innovative ways to support the adoption of renewable energy sour...
Women entrepreneurs make a significant contribution to the Indian economy. However, access to formal finance is a crucial barrier to the gro...
Almost two million households across Central Asia suffer from energy poverty according to the World Bank. The challenges are to maintain and...
By 2050, the global number of persons above 65 years old will double to over 1.5 billion, according to the United Nations, and Asia will con...
In this episode of Asia’s Developing Future, Keio University professor Sayuri Shirai, a former Bank of Japan Policy Board member and ADBI vi...
In this podcast, the Asian Development Bank Institute’s Santi Setiawati spotlights Japan’s innovative sanitation and wastewater management s...
Economic policy prescriptions for crisis-hit developing countries known as the “Washington Consensus” have boosted prosperity in Asia and be...
Many governments and non-governmental entities are making ambitious pledges to reduce carbon emissions and move toward a global net-zero lev...
The “metaverse” is an emerging concept that could open the door to new service delivery and job creation. But what is the metaverse exactly...
The realization of carbon net-zero economies in Asia and beyond will depend on the capacity of sectors to adopt decarbonization solutions. I...
Fast-growing developing and emerging countries in Asia and beyond are facing the dual challenges of meeting increasing energy demand while t...
COVID-19-induced school closures have significantly disrupted learning and contributed to learning losses that could have lasting socioecono...
Supply chain disruptions linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its economic impacts continue to undermine energy and food security. The...
Under the concept of “inclusive sanitation,” access to a safe and clean toilet is considered a right, not a privilege. Yet the world still h...
Asia and the Pacific account for over 50% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Recognizing the urgent need for action to limit glo...
The COVID-19 crisis, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, energy security challenges, supply shortages, and soaring inflation continue to disrup...
In this podcast, Nobel laureate Michael Kremer, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, discusses digitalization experiences an...
Indonesia is the world’s fourth-largest producer of coal, Southeast Asia’s biggest gas supplier, and the largest biofuel producer globally,...
Asia and the Pacific is the world’s primary region for investment in low-carbon transition technologies. Despite recent growth trends, howev...
Indonesia’s Group of 20 (G20) presidency in 2022 marks the start of three successive years in which the annual forum of the world’s largest...
The Think7, or T7, is the think tank engagement group of the Group of 7 (G7) launched under Germany’s 2022 G7 presidency. In this podcast, A...
Benjamin Diokno started his appointment as Governor of Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas, or BSP, in March 2019. He has spent much of his term as h...
In this podcast, Vegard Skirbekk of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and Columbia University describes a new measure of aging burden...
In this episode of Asia’s Developing Future, Keio University professor Sayuri Shirai, a former Bank of Japan Policy Board member and ADBI vi...
In 2022, the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) is observing the 25th anniversary of its founding as the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB)...
Research has shown that when more women work, economies grow. Women’s economic empowerment also boosts productivity, income equality, and de...
In 2022, the Asian Development Bank Institute is observing the 25th anniversary of its founding as the Asian Development Bank’s Tokyo-based...
The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation member countries, also known as the CAREC region, extends from Azerbaijan to the People’s Rep...
Public procurement is commonly used by governments in developed countries to promote innovation and socioeconomic policy objectives. However...