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Asia’s Developing Future is the podcast that helps to make sense of emerging development and policy issues – their impact on people, society, and the economy in Asia and the Pacific. Listen and subscribe for free on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Blubrry, and Tunein.
Listen to the latest episode of Asia’s Developing Future. To mark World Water Week, join Yoonjin Kim, Director of Strategy and Development of the World Water Council, and Victor Shinde, Head of the Climate Center for Cities at the National Center of Urban Affairs in New Delhi, as they discuss the crucial role that culture plays in successful and sustainable water resource projects.
Join independent science journalist Disha Shetty, recent winner of ADBI’s Developing Asia Journalism Awards, and Suling Lin, senior columnist from The Straits Times, as they discuss the challenges facing journalists reporting on development issues in an ever-changing news environment, and how collaboration with research organizations can amplify their impact.
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 the Pacific? The economist from Stanford University shares his thoughts and latest research in a discussion with the Asian Development Bank Institute.
In this episode of Asia’s Developing Future, Onon Bayasgalar, Chief Sustainability Officer for URECA talks about their project in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, that is empowering women-led households by switching from coal to solar power and giving them access to the carbon credit market.
In this podcast, Renana Jhabvala, the President of SEWA, the Self-Employed Women’s Association, will explain the policy tool that the Indian government has been implementing to formalize women’s economic participation and her experience with SEWA in utilizing bridge institutions to connect women entrepreneurs and formal banking sector.
In this podcast, ADBI Senior Research Fellow Dina Azhgaliyeva, Zhanna Kapsalyamova from Nazarbayev University, and Anna Arkhangelskaya from the Institute of Energy under the Kyrgyz Technical University explain socioeconomic disparity that energy-poor households face and discuss policy options to replace inefficient fossil fuel subsidies while minimizing the impact of energy prices on vulnerable households.
20 October 2020 What Asia can do to strengthen safeguards for its COVID-19 vulnerable aging societies
In this podcast, ADBI Capacity Building and Training Economist, Pitchaya Sirivunnabood, discusses the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the region’s aging societies and strategies for safeguarding seniors moving forward.
19 August 2020 The new and unexpected ways Mobility as a Service systems could affect Asia’s cities
In this podcast, Satish Ukkusuri, a civil engineering professor at Purdue University and Director of its Urban Mobility Networks and Intelligence Lab, discusses the move towards Mobility as a Service, or MaaS systems, and their implications for the future of sustainable urban development in the region.
6 November 2019 Rethinking engineer training is vital to meeting Asian infrastructure demand
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.
9 October 2019 Papua New Guinea is the forefront of fintech financial inclusion breakthroughs
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.
2 October 2019 Public works, infrastructure spending can offset negative effects of liberalized trade
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.
18 September 2019 Services important for developing Asia growth, both past and future
When economies across Asia became important players in the supply chains that now dominate global trade, manufacturing boomed. But that is only half the story.
4 September 2019 How to thread the economic and political needle on Asian infrastructure growth
Asian Development Bank Institute Dean Naoyuki Yoshino and renowned political scientist Francis Fukuyama of Stanford University’s Leadership Academy for Development discuss strategies for meeting developing Asia’s surging demand for infrastructure.
1 March 2018 Who would have thought that punctuation could influence borrowing and lending? Peer-to-peer or P2P lending is a way of financing debt online so that people can borrow and lend money without going through a financial institution, like a bank. P2P, also known as social lending or crowd lending, has no need for a middleman and has emerged as an alternative to traditional lending institutions around the world.
1 February 2018 Community sanitation can be cheaply improved with money-making technology
Basic household sanitation has long been outside the reach of cost-effective comprehensive solutions, especially in communities dependent on septic rather than sewage systems. But this is changing.