Publications

Годовой отчет Института ЦАРЭС за 2020 год содержит обзор деятельности Института по наращиванию потенциала, исследований и адвокации в 2020 году и предлагает прогноз на 2021 год. В нем резюмируется работа Института по многочисленным направлениям деятельности, таким как подготовка экономической справки по COVID-19 для правительств стран-членов ; запуск Ежеквартального экономического мониторинга ЦАРЭС; исследования по изменению климата, WASH и законодательным аспектам электронной торговли; два исследовательских проекта в рамках Сети аналитических центров ЦАРЭС (CTTN), четыре исследовательских проекта в рамках Программы приглашенных стипендиатов; создание платформы электронного обучения; проведение 10 семинаров и восьми вебинаров; Получение статуса наблюдателя ООН, среднесрочный обзор стратегии и многое другое.

stitute’s Annual Report 2020 provides overview of the Institute’s capacity building, research, and advocacy work in 2020, and offers outlook on year 2021. It summarizes the Institute’s work across numerous activities, such as COVID-19 related economic brief production for member governments; launch of CAREC Quarterly Economic Monitor; research on climate change, WASH, and legislative aspects of e-commerce; two research projects under the CAREC Think Tanks Network (CTTN), four research projects under the Visiting Fellow Program; establishment of e-Learning platform; delivery of 10 workshops and eight webinars; UN observer status acquisition, strategy mid-term review, and many more.

The paper on harnessing the role of technology in promoting safe tourism destinations in CAREC overviews losses incurred in the industry owing to the pandemic, discusses some deep-rooted challenges, lists benefits of technology application, and provides recommendations for CAREC members, also for multilateral development partners to revive the tourism industry and enhance its experience post-COVID-19.

Our new policy brief on harnessing the role of technology in promoting safe tourism destinations in CAREC overviews losses incurred in the industry owing to the pandemic, discusses some deep-rooted challenges, lists benefits of technology application, and provides recommendations for CAREC members, also for multilateral development partners to revive the tourism industry and enhance its experience.

This report summarizes the discussion of the virtual workshop jointly organized by the CAREC Institute and the Public Opinion Research Institute of Kazakhstan (PORI) delivered on 12 March 2021 with the aim to share the results of the vaccination perception polls in seven CAREC countries conducted under the CAREC Institute-PORI project. It provides differences, similarities, lessons for successful vaccination campaigns, and lists potential cooperation areas among CAREC countries explored.

The March 2021 conference tried to identify means to revisit and rethink past, present, and future of CAREC in the wake of the pandemic and catalyze research on acute topics including e-commerce taxation, e-government, fintech, tourism, debt sustainability, energy sector, workforce adaptability to the new normal, and many more. This report included the analysis and policy recommendations.

In this issue, we cover the CAREC Regional Integration Index with new data and findings, give details of SPS modernization developments in CAREC, announce research grants program and research conference, also narrate about the PRC’s 14th five-year-plan and new publications on CAREC.

This report provides summary of a 24 February 2021 workshop titled “Modernizing Sanitary-Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures in CAREC and Use of Digital Certification” organized jointly by the CAREC Institute and the Asian Development Bank.

The CAREC Institute has updated the data for the CAREC Regional Integration Index (CRII) which measures progress in regional economic cooperation and integration among the 11 member countries of the ADB-supported CAREC Program.

In this issue, we provide details of the border-crossing improvement workshop and share several other workshop reports.

This workshop report summarizes contents of the virtual workshop conducted during 14-22 January 2021 by the CAREC Institute and ADB on the topic of border crossing improvement with participation of project managers of the ADB-funded projects and international development partners who shared lessons of border improvement projects and relevant acute topics with other CAREC representatives.

In a new working paper on financial inclusion and fintech in CAREC, our staff discuss financial inclusion as an imperative to achieving economic growth in a globalized market, and as an essential element to accomplish important objectives, such as poverty alleviation, anti-corruption measures, employment, social equity, and wealth redistribution.

To ensure effective and timely achievement of the strategic objectives laid out in CAREC 2020, the 11th CAREC Ministerial Conference held in Wuhan, People’s Republic of China (PRC) in October 2012 endorses the Wuhan Action Plan. Three priority areas of actions are detailed in the Wuhan Action Plan to guide the CAREC Program through its next phase of operations.

The Senior Officials' Meeting requested ADB as CAREC Secretariat to conduct an assessment of CAREC Institute for implementing the Strategic Knowledge Framework, and that the assessment should include recommendations on the physical versus virtual modality, including possible establishment of a network of resource and training centers; associated governance structure; and estimated cost and funding sources. The assessment was submitted to the 11th Ministerial Conference held in November 2012.

This paper lays out a strategic framework for CAREC Institute during 2013-2017. The paper is a work-in-progress, and will go through consultations for further improvements.