The Asian Economic Development Conference promotes high-quality, frontline research on major economic development issues relevant to developing economies in Asia and the Pacific. Photo credit: ADB.
The conference promotes high-quality, frontline research on major economic development issues relevant to developing economies.
The 4th Asian Economic Development Conference is open for research paper submissions. The deadline is on 15 January 2025.
The annual research conference is organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), and a university from Asia. In 2025, it will be cohosted by Peking University (PKU) and take place on 3 to 4 July in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.
The conference promotes high-quality, frontline research on major economic development issues relevant to developing economies in Asia and the Pacific and fosters knowledge sharing among researchers, development practitioners, and policy makers across the region.
The conference organizers are inviting submissions of unpublished empirical analyses, survey articles, economic modelling, and policy-oriented research on a range of topics on development economics, including but not limited to the following:
- Agriculture and Rural Development: food security, productivity, and agricultural markets;
- Health and Education: access to health care and education, aging, and demographic challenges;
- Labor: skills, future of work, job security, job quality, and labor productivity;
- Gender: gaps in income and opportunities and gender empowerment;
- Poverty, Inequality, and Welfare: income gaps, income shocks, role of social safety nets, MSMEs, intra-household dynamics, and social development;
- Climate Change and Environment: climate change mitigation and adaptation, natural capital, sustainable development, net-zero transition, carbon pricing, energy transition, and natural disasters;
- Macroeconomics and Finance: economic growth, capital market, sustainable finance, inflation, macro and financial stability, and fiscal and monetary policy;
- Regional Cooperation and Economic Integration: trade, economic and financial integration, global value chains, migration, capital flows, and cross-border investment;
- Infrastructure: energy, transport, water, urban development, and quality infrastructure;
- Digital Economy and Innovation: digital transformation, closing digital divides, technology and innovation, entrepreneurship, digital currencies and assets, data science, and big data; and
- Domestic Resource Mobilization and Governance: public finance, debt sustainability, public management, bureaucracy, corruption, and taxation.
To submit a paper, go to the registration page. Only completed papers with an abstract will be considered for evaluation. Submissions will be evaluated in terms of originality, analytical rigor, and policy relevance in the Asian context. Decisions on paper selection will be released in March and April 2025.
Authors of accepted papers may be invited to submit their work for publication in a mini symposium in the Asian Development Review (ADR).
