Strategies for developing Asia's future: 25 years of the Asian Development Bank Institute

Since its founding in 1997, ADBI has worked to provide governments and stakeholders in Asia and the Pacific with policy knowledge to effectively address sustainable development challenges and opportunities. This book details the evolution of Asian Development Bank Institute since its founding as the Asian Development Bank’s Tokyo-based think tank in 1997 and its efforts to provide the region’s governments and stakeholders with policy knowledge to effectively address sustainable development challenges and opportunities. It examines ADBI’s policy focuses and activities over various deanships. It highlights the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis’s role in promoting calls for financial and structural reform. It discusses ADBI’s subsequent promotion of regional integration and cooperation, and infrastructure investment, as well as ADBI’s responses to the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, the Sustainable Development Goals and climate change, and the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The book also details the development of ADBI’s policy research, capacity building and training, and outreach activities and the institute’s collaboration with the ADC and other knowledge partners. The book concludes by discussing how ADBI can maintain its relevance to its stakeholders over the next 25 years.