Upcoming Events

ADB/ADBI's Flagship Study: Infrastructure and Regional Cooperation, 3rd Workshop on Book Preparation (Beijing)
Selected ADB/ADBI staff and policymakers and experts from the academic community, think tanks, and the private sector will provide comments on the draft book chapters, which will be presented at the workshop. The chapter themes are the need for regional infrastructure, the benefits of regional infrastructure networks, enhancing intra-regional trade and investment, financing regional infrastructure, and polices and institutions for effective regional infrastructure.

Developing Asia Journalism Training and Awards (Tokyo)
This training program will contribute to better governance through better monitoring and objective assessment by journalists of regional and national policies and initiatives as well as emerging economic and development trends.

Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure in the Pacific Region (Brisbane, Australia)
The third in a workshop series that has been initiated to improve the understanding of senior officials across the Asia and Pacific region, who are responsible for infrastructure development, of the benefits of PPPs, priority actions to enable PPPs, and the design features of “bankable PPP projects.”

Study Finalization Workshop on ADB/ADBI's Flagship Study: Infrastructure and Regional Cooperation (Tokyo)
Chapters of the book, following the themes of the 3rd Workshop on Book Preparation, will be presented and finalized based on comments from experts.

ADBI Annual Conference—Asia's Contribution to Global Economic Development and Stability (Tokyo)
The 11th Annual Conference will highlight research in development issues that fall under ADBI's priority themes.

Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure (PPPI) Days 2008 (Washington, DC)
A two-day PPP conference preceded by a PPP capacity building event, and concluded with a forum for PPP knowledge-sharing among public and private sector partners.