ADB Podcast

ADB Podcast

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is an international development finance institution. www.adb.org ADB provides loans, grants and expertise to developing member countries in Asia and the Pacific to help them alleviate poverty and advance their economic development through sustainable solutions. The ADB Podcast channel provides a platform for engaging, accessible discussion and debate around a wide range of topical development issues affecting Asia and the Pacific.

Episodes

May 1, 2018 18 mins
As many of the wildest ideas about technology become reality, and extend deeper into our lives and workplaces, our anxieties seem to be accelerating together with the technology itself. Asia is at the forefront of adopting these new technologies – with China leading the way. In Episode 2 we look at how widespread the effects of technology in the workplace are, what industries will benefit most, and how excited or concerned workers ...
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ADB’s Technology and Jobs podcast is a four-episode series focusing on the impact of technological change on labor markets – from an Asian perspective. We look at how the workplace is being transformed by technology and what that means for the workers of today as well as those who are going to be doing the jobs of the future. In Episode 1 host Erik Churchill and economists Elisabetta Gentile and Sameer Khatiwada discuss the scale o...
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So far in this series we have examined various ways that Asia’s workplace and workforce are being changed by new technology. We asked how we should see the rise of the machines – a threat or an opportunity? We also looked at the way technology could alter the globalized economy and Asia’s place within it. In the final episode of our 4-part series, we look at what lies ahead for the workers of today and what can be done to prepare t...
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Globalization is the force behind Asia’s extraordinary economic rise. But the supply chains that have linked Asia to the globalization process could come under strain from new technologies that might, for example, make it easier for industrialized countries in the West to manufacture products closer to home. So will technology affect Asia’s vaunted position in the global supply chain? What kind of a challenge does it pose to specif...
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