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Navigating COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific

Edited by Bambang Susantono, Yasuyuki Sawada, and Cyn-Young Park

COVID-19 has unleashed unparalleled challenges, yet provides opportunities to rethink strategies to tackle inequality, socioeconomic vulnerability, and environmental issues. This book collects contributions from ADB staff and experts to help inform policy on diverse themes. These include tackling the economic fallout, supporting SMEs, protecting the vulnerable, ensuring food security, and building resilient trade and supply chains. The authors highlight the importance of quality infrastructure, disaster risk management, digital acceleration, and regional cooperation in building back better together.

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Introduction

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Economic Impact and Policy Response

  • The COVID-19 Economic Impact
  • COVID-19, Technology, and Polarizing Jobs
  • COVID-19 Impact on International Migration, Remittances, and Recipient Households in Developing Asia
  • COVID-19 and SARS: An Epidemiological and Economic Comparison
  • Key Responses to COVID-19 by Economies in Asia and the Pacific: An Update from the ADB COVID-19 Policy Database
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Tackling the Financial Fallout

  • COVID-19 Exposes Asian Banks’ Vulnerability to United States Dollars Funding
  • How Can Asia Avoid Fallout if COVID-19 Triggers a Debt Crunch?
  • Pandemic Highlights the Need to Manage Asia’s Debt Problem
  • Reform State-Owned Enterprises to Avoid a COVID-19 Debt and Investment Crisis
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Supporting Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises

  • Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Policy Measures for COVID-19
  • The COVID-19 Impact on Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Evidence from Rapid Surveys in Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Philippines, and Thailand
  • Three Ways to Support Businesses and Their Workers During a Pandemic
  • Five Ways Banks Can Help Asia’s Smallest Businesses Survive COVID-19
  • Small Business Solutions for Pandemic Challenges
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Mitigating the Impact on the Poor and Vulnerable

  • Mind the Gap in Combating COVID-19
  • To Survive the Pandemic, Indonesia’s Urban Poor Need Economic Support and Basic Services
  • We Need Better Social Protection to Safeguard the Poor from COVID-19
  • How to Protect Asia’s Rapidly Aging Population from COVID-19
  • Helping Women and Girls Survive COVID-19 and its Aftermath
  • The Informal Sector Needs Financial Support
  • Strings Attached: Financial Education Is Needed to Judge Pandemic Assistance
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Ensuring Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

  • COVID-19 Highlights the Need for Safe, Nutritious, and Affordable Food
  • Keeping Asia and the Pacific Fed during the Pandemic
  • How COVID-19 Could Accelerate the Digitization of the Food Supply Chain
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Building Resilient Trade and Supply Chains

  • Stringency of Containment Measures: Spillovers and Sectoral Effects through Trade and Production Linkages
  • Even with Borders Closing, We Need to Keep Trade Flowing
  • The Case for Regional Cooperation in Trade and Investment Finance for Asia
  • During COVID-19, Countries Need to Work Together to Ensure the Supply of Protective Equipment
  • New ADB Tool Offers Road Map to Unblock Supplies of Life-Saving Products
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Accelerating Digital Transformation

  • COVID-19: There’s an App for That
  • The Global Economy Will Emerge Stronger if COVID-19 Drives Digitization
  • Will the Pandemic Speed Up Workplace Automation?
  • Blending Education and Technology to Help Schools through the Pandemic
  • COVID-19 Has Created Digital Opportunities in the Pacific
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Rebooting Asia after COVID-19

  • Rebooting the Economy during COVID-19
  • Two Ways to Help Revive Tourism in Asia and the Pacific
  • Managing Public–Private Partnerships for a Post-Pandemic Recovery
  • Asia and the Pacific Can Overcome COVID-19 by Working Together
  • Asia Should Lead the Way in Producing a COVID-19 Vaccine
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Building Back Better Together

  • Building Back Better, Differently, and Together in Asia and the Pacific
  • Strengthening Disaster Resilience
  • Quality Must Prevail in Post-Pandemic Infrastructure Development
  • Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Key to Pacific’s Ongoing COVID-19 Strategy
  • Build Green to Help Fend Off the Next Pandemic
  • The Response to COVID-19 Should Also Be a Response to the Climate Crisis
  • Back to Blue: Let’s Value Our Oceans Again
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