Asian Development Policy Report 2025: Harnessing Digital Transformation for Good
Key information
- Date
- Time
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4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Main Building
- Room
- B104
About this event
The second edition of the Asian Development Policy Report (ADPR) 2025, an annual flagship report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that addresses developing Asia’s salient development challenges, delves into the topic of 'Harnessing Digital Transformation for Good'.
Asia is highly vulnerable to climate change and its inclusive development remains very much a work in progress. Digital transformation holds immense promise as a tool to propel low carbon and inclusive development in the region but also poses serious climate and inclusion challenges. Therefore, a policy framework that aligns digital transformation with climate and inclusion goals is essential if Asia is to successfully leverage digital transformation for good.
The report is based on interesting new empirical research on the link between digital transformation on the one hand and climate change and inclusive development on the other. Examples include firm-level evidence on the relationship between AI and employment in Korea and cross-country evidence on the association between digitalisation and energy consumption in Asia.
Speaker
The speaker for this event is Donghyun Park, Economic Advisor (Strategic Knowledge Initiatives), Economic Research and Development Impact Department, (Asian Development Bank). The chair is Satoshi Miyamura (SOAS).
Contact email: sm97@soas.ac.uk
Header image credit: Mike Enerio via Unsplash.
About the speaker
Dr. Donghyun Park is currently Economic Advisor at the Economic Research and Development Impact Department (ERDI) of Asian Development Bank (ADB), which he joined in April 2007.
Prior to joining ADB, he was a tenured Associate Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr. Park has a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, and his main research fields are macroeconomics, international finance, international trade, and development economics.
His research, which has been published in more than 200 refereed journal papers, revolves around policy-oriented topics relevant for Asia’s development, including digital entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, and population aging. Dr. Park is Managing Editor of the Asian Development Review.
