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Reinvigorating Financing Approaches for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure in ASEAN+3
Publication
2 May 2023

Reinvigorating Financing Approaches for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure in ASEAN+3

​​​​​​​This report presents a practical toolkit of ways to merge public, private, institutional, and other forms of low-cost capital to deliver resilient, sustainable, and future-ready infrastructure in the ASEAN+3 region.
As climate impacts worsen, adopting clean energy solutions like wind energy has become more urgent. Photo credit: ADB.
Article
24 April 2023

SEADS 2023: Climate Action Urgently Needed

Accelerating the adoption of solutions that can mitigate climate impacts and advance decarbonization now more urgent than ever, say experts.
ASEAN and Global Value Chains: Locking in Resilience and Sustainability
Publication
30 March 2023

ASEAN and Global Value Chains: Locking in Resilience and Sustainability

This book reviews the challenges and opportunities facing GVCs in Southeast Asia as they build greater resilience and promote sustainable, green development for the region and its people.
Businesses can reach more customers and improve their services with the help of digital technology. Photo credit: ADB.
News
21 February 2023

Helping Tourism MSMEs Take the Digital Path to Recovery and Resilience

ADB and Thailand organize training to help tourism MSMEs adopt digital technologies to analyze consumer data, market services, and boost profitability.
Venture-capital investments in ASEAN remain primarily concentrated in Singapore, ASEAN’s leading innovation hub, and Indonesia, ASEAN’s biggest market. Photo credit: ADB.
Article
15 February 2023

Southeast Asia’s Tech Industry Goes from a Gallop to a Canter

With investments in ASEAN startups showing signs of weakness, policies are needed to support innovation ecosystems across the region.
Several ASEAN countries are shifting to electric vehicles (EVs) to achieve net zero emissions. They also aspire to become an EV manufacturing hub. Photo credit: iStock/Samsul
News
8 February 2023

Electric Vehicles, Electronics, and the Digital Economy Drive FDI Flows to ASEAN

Growing investor interest in these key industries helps boost foreign direct investments to near pre-pandemic levels in 2021.
COVID-19 recovery still a priority for ASEAN member states. Photo credit: ADB.
News
10 January 2023

ASEAN Leaders Vow to Sustain Recovery amid Challenges

Leaders want countries to brace for headwinds from COVID-19, supply chain disruptions, food shortage, climate change, and other threats.
The Green, Social, Sustainable and Other Labeled (GSS+) Bonds Initiative for Southeast Asia
Publication
22 December 2022

The Green, Social, Sustainable and Other Labeled (GSS+) Bonds Initiative for Southeast Asia

This flyer explains how Southeast Asian debt issuers could raise over $1 billion by 2025 through green, social, sustainable, and other labeled bonds to finance climate investments.
The challenge for the region is to leverage the promise of digital technologies for sustainable, equitable, and inclusive growth. Photo credit: ADB.
Article
14 November 2022

Inclusive Growth and Responsible Innovation for Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia needs to leverage the promise of digital technologies for sustainable, equitable, and inclusive growth. 
A wind and solar farm in the Philippines. Photo credit: ADB
News
4 November 2022

ASEAN Energy Outlook Calls for Accelerated Transition

Energy demand in Southeast Asia is projected to triple by 2050 in the absence of new policies to accelerate clean energy transition.
e-Conomy SEA 2022
Publication
27 October 2022

e-Conomy SEA 2022

New report from Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company examines prospects of Southeast Asia's digital economy from the latest digital adoption trends, to sector growth insights and opportunities for the digital decade ahead.
The acceleration of the digital economy coupled with needs spurred by COVID-19 restrictions have catalyzed digital-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship in the region. Photo credit: ADB.
Article
11 October 2022

Addressing the Digital Divide in ASEAN

To accelerate its digital transition, ASEAN needs to raise the quality of its universities and higher education institutions and be more inclusive.
Integrating renewable energy from different sources, such as solar and wind farms, at different places will require power systems to be more flexible and smarter. Photo credit: ADB.
Article
29 September 2022

Building the ASEAN Power Grid: Opportunities and Challenges

Interconnecting power grids in the region is a key strategy in strengthening energy security and transitioning to renewables through efficient resource sharing.
Consumer spending, including on recreation, travel, and restaurants, is driving growth in the region. Photo credit: ADB.
News
26 September 2022

Southeast Asia Economy Rebounds Despite Headwinds

Robust domestic demand in Indonesia and the Philippines contribute to an improved outlook for this year, according to the Asian Development Bank.
The financing targets companies in the manufacturing, health care, financial services, education, business services, and consumer sectors across Southeast Asia. Photo credit: ADB.
News
15 September 2022

ADB Invests in KV Asia II to Improve Access to Growth Capital and Boost SDG Progress in Southeast Asia

ADB aims to help improve access to financing for mid-sized companies in Southeast Asia where the availability of equity capital is limited for these kind of companies.