About Aiko Kikkawa Takenaka
Aiko Kikkawa Takenaka is an economist in the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department of the Asian Development Bank.COVID-19 hitting migration and remittances hard in developing Asia
By Aiko Kikkawa Takenaka, James Villafuerte, Raymond Gaspar and Badri Narayanan. Posted August 25, 2020
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has devastated economies worldwide, slashing jobs and incomes. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2020a) estimates that employment in Asia and the Pacific will fall by as much as 167 million jobs in 2020 should containment measures last 6 months from when the outbreak first intensified in the respective countries. In turn, wage incomes in the region are projected to fall from $359 billion to $550 billion.
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- Taxation and digitalization in the COVID-19 era
- Climate change impacts in Asia are all essentially a water story
- Top journal articles on sanitation reveal new policy insights
- Rethinking the impact of the lockdown on micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in the Philippines
- ESG investment for promoting net-zero carbon emissions






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