Moderator: Elisabetta Gentile

• Assessing socio-economic impacts of infrastructure project through geospatial analysis 
• Hyun Son and Homer Pagkalinawan
• Assessing the impact of ADB infrastructure investments with Landsat data: GMS Corridor in PRC and Viet Nam
• Yesim Elhan-Kayalar, Yasuyuki Sawada, Hiroyuki Miyazaki and Ruo Shangguan
• Impacts from improvement of ground rail accessibility to/from city airport to local economies: Case study of Tokyo, Japan
• Kiyoshi Taniguchi, Hirokazu Mizuno, Hironori Kato and Jin Murakami 

Moderator: Guntur Sugiyarto

• Measuring the contribution of remittance income and household expenditures to the sectoral and overall economic growth of migrant origin countries: Input-output analysis for the Philippines
• Aiko Kikkawa, Kijin Kim, Raymond Gaspar and Christian Marvin Zamora 
• Understanding determinants of remittances to Pakistan
• David de Padua, Irfan Qureshi, Matteo Lanzafame, Kiyoshi Taniguchi 
• Remittance inflow, institutional quality and economic growth in Nepal
• Pradeep Panthi(ADBI) and Jeevnath Devkota (Nagoya City Board of Education, Nagoya)

Moderator: Rana Hasan

• Using big data to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tourism in Thailand analysis
• Madhavi Pundit, Daniel Boller; Yothin Jinjarak; Yoo Ri Kim (University of Surrey), Anyu Liu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Paolo Magnata, Elaine S. Tan, Priscille C. Villanueva 
• Ship location data as real-time indicator in economic disruptions
• Mahinthan Mariasingham, Elaine Tan; Cherryl Chico; Amna Gul, Ed Kieran Reyes
• Using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to detect road quality
• Ron Lester Durante and Arturo Martinez Jr.
• Implications of transportation improvements and land use policy: The case of Bengaluru
• Liming Chen, Rana Hasan, Yi Jiang and Andrii Parkhomenko (University of Southern California)

Food security is a complex issue, with a number of interlocking factors that need to be addressed. This session will discuss three papers that examine hunger and food security in Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Timor Leste. The papers will examine the issue of hunger based on the four dimension of food security indicators which includes: a) availability; b) access; c) utilization; and d) stability. The papers will show that food security have common drivers across the various economies such as decline in agriculture production, reliance on imports as main source of food supply, rising food prices, economic downturn, recurrent climate-induced risks, and conflict. However, there are also unique features about hunger in these small economies. The papers will also elaborate on essential policy prescription that can help manage hunger and strengthen food security in the region.

Moderator: Maria Dulce Victoria Zara
Discussants: Michiko Katagami and Omer Zafar 

• Food security in Timor Leste
• Kavita S. Iyengar
• Food security in Lao PDR
• Emma R. Allen
• Food security in Myanmar
• Joel Mangahas