Asia Regional Integration Center

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) continued its engagement with the Think 20, the official engagement group of the G20. India assumed Presidency of the T20 in 2023, with the Observer Research Foundation as the Secretariat. The T20 Communiqué, a collection of policy recommendations for the G20’s consideration was produced as the final output of T20. ADB provided funding support through Technical Assistance 9914: Strengthening Knowledge Alliance for Innovation, Technology, and Regional Cooperation, and produced an Issue Brief entitled Greening International Trade and Investment.

This technical workshop discussed the early versions of papers selected from several submitted by research scholars across ADB member countries. Discussants from ADB, ADBI, and USP provided insights on how the papers could be improved. The papers will be further developed and presented in the annual ADB-Asian Think Tank Development Forum in September 2023.

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Think20 (T20) is the official engagement group of G20 bringing together leading think tanks and research centers worldwide. Providing research-based policy recommendations to the G20 leaders, Indonesia took on the Presidency of the T20 in 2022 with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies as the Secretariat. The final output is the T20 Communiqué, a collection of policy recommendations for the G20’s consideration. The Asian Development Bank provided funding support through Technical Assistance 9537: Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Integration Knowledge Partnerships and Research Network in Asia and the Pacific. One of the outputs of this partnership is the publication and dissemination of Windows for Recovering Together and Stronger: Proceedings of the Global Dialogue 2022, a Flagship Event for T20 Indonesia.

This event serves as an inception workshop to explore this emerging research agenda though the presentations of innovative papers by invited scholars and experts. The workshop aims to cover the following theme, among others:

1. Evaluation of the impact of demographic change and technology on labor productivity (or any of the causal relationships among the three) including that of youth and the elderly.
2. Job creation and substitution effects of new technology particularly focusing on young and aging workforce.
3. Patterns and determinants of labor force participation and productivity among workers by age groups/cohorts over time
4. Assessment of the education/training needs of developing countries to cope with technological advancement
5. Evaluations and case studies of educational and vocational program to boot productivity and employability of workers for “future jobs.”
6. Role of regional cooperation in addressing the challenges associated with the impact of demographic change and advancing technology on productivity and jobs; in areas such as human capital and skills development, access to technology, and cross-border labor and student mobility.

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This workshop, which serves as a preparatory meeting for 2019 Asian Economic Integration Report theme chapter, brings together regional and international experts to share research and knowledge, to identify existing gaps in research and to discuss on the outline of the report.

1. What are the effects of age, aging and demographic change on labor productivity and growth in Asia or other advanced aging economies, and how are innovations and technology adoptions relate to the effects?
2. How do skills, occupations, workplace and the labor market respond to age, aging and demographic changes and how technologies can be instrumental to the response? and how technologies can be instrumental to the response?
3. What are the effective policy measures to foster the virtuous cycle of population aging, technology adoption, and sustained productivity growth and development?
4. How can Asia, which consists of countries with diverse population profiles, cooperate to maximize the gains from demographic transitions and dividends as a region?

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