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19 January, Friday (1:45 pm–3:15 pm)


Session 6A: Climate Change 2 (Auditorium 1) 

Moderator: Sabah Abdulla (Senior Economist, ERDI)

Presentations:

1.     Confined to Stay: Natural Disasters and Indonesia's Migration Ban
        Lennart Reiners (Economist, ERDI)
        Discussant: Panharoth Chhay

 2.     Fossil Fuel Subsidy and GHG Emissions: Firm-level Empirical Evidence from Developing Asia
         Dina Azhgaliyeva (Senior Research Fellow, ADBI)
         Discussant: Lennart Reiners

 3.     Gender differentiated impact of clean energy transition: Evidence from rural Viet Nam using panel data
         Panharoth Chhay (Research Associate, ADBI)
         Discussant: Dina Azhgaliyeva


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Session 6B: Big Data Analysis 2 (Auditorium 2) 

Moderator: Stefan Schipper (Senior Statistician, ERDI) 

Presentations:

1.     Global Citizenship Competencies of Filipino Students: Using Machine Learning to Explore the Structure of
        Global Competencies in the 2018 OECD Programme for International Student Assessment
        Macario Cordel II (Statistics Officer (Data Science), ERDI)
        Discussant: Yating Ru

 2.    Impact of Road Quality on Thailand's Socioeconomic Development: A Machine Learning Perspective
       Joseph Albert Nino M. Bulan (Statistics Analyst, ERDI)
        Discussant: Macario Cordel II

3.     Spatial Heterogeneity in Machine Learning-Based Poverty Mapping: Where Do the Models Underperform
         Yating Ru (Economist, ERDI)
         Discussant: Arturo Jr M. Martinez (pre-recorded discussion)


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Session 6C: Trade and Regional Cooperation 2 (Auditorium 3) 

Moderator: Kijin Kim (Senior Economist, ERDI) 

Presentations:

1.     Fostering Export Diversification in Bangladesh: Options and Scope of Further Work
        Barun Kumar Dey (Senior Economics Officer, SARD); Rana Hasan (Regional Lead Economist, ERDI)
        Discussant: Pramila Crivelli

2.     Services Sector Interlinkages with Merchandise Exports of Pacific Economies: A Gravity Analysis
        Sanchita Basu Das (Economist, ERDI), Pralok Gupta (Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of
        Foreign Trade Delhi) 
        Discussant: Barun Kumar Dey 

3.     The Determinants of Product-Specific Rules of Origin: An Econometric Analysis in the Regional
        Comprehensive Partnership
        Pramila Crivelli (Economist, ERDI)
        Discussant: Sanchita Basu Das


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Session 6D: Gender (Auditorium 4) 

Moderator: Hema Swaminathan (Senior Economist, ERDI) 

Presentations:

1.     Male migration and Women empowerment: The case of Samoa
         Vu Thu Trang (Research Associate, ADBI)
         Discussant: Joseph E. Zveglich Jr. 

2.     What's behind gender pay differences at ADB?
        Joseph E. Zveglich Jr. (Deputy Chief Economist, ERDI)
        Discussant: Vu Thu Trang


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Session 6E: Climate Change and Fiscal Policy (LRC 2) 

Moderator:  Yi Jiang (Principal Economist, ERDI)

Presentations: 

1.     Evaluating the Relocation of Indonesia’s Capital: A Quantitative Spatial Model Approach
         Yi Jiang (Principal Economist, ERDI)
        Discussant:  Alexander Raabe

2.     Toward Financial Sustainability of Urban Service Delivery: Case Study on Revenue Improvement for
        Honiara City Council, Solomon Islands
         Aimee Hampel-Milagrosa (Urban Development Specialist, SG WUD, ADB and
         Parimal Joshi, Infrastructure, Policy, and Governance Lead, Solomon Islands Infrastructure Program (SIIP))
         Discussant: Yi Jiang 

3.     Paying for climate change: how climatological disasters drive sovereign spreads
         Alexander Raabe (Economist, ERDI)
         Discussant: Aimee Hampel-Milagrosa


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