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Arief’s research interests include topics related to macroeconomic policy, open macroeconomics and economic modeling. He works in the teams producing the Asian Development Outlook.

Irfan Qureshi contributes to macroeconomic surveillance, monitoring, and research while working for ADB’s flagship publication, Asian Development Outlook (ADO). His research interests include financial market development, macroeconomic policy, and nowcasting. His research has been published in academic journals on topics relating to monetary policy and debt dynamics in

Smita has been working in ADB’s Nepal Country Office since 2006. She is deeply involved in the overall policy reforms and their implementation for improvement of education system in Nepal. She is passionate about women issues particularly on economic empowerment She holds MBA and Bachelor of Political Economics and Philosophy from the Wheeling Jesuit University, USA.

Pramod Bhatta, PhD, is an assistant professor of sociology at Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Prior to this, he was a senior researcher of education at Martin Chautari, a not-for-profit research and policy institute in Kathmandu. He has conducted research and evaluations on different aspects of Nepal's education reforms since the 1990s, and published extensively on education

Donald Lambert leads the Private Sector Development Unit within ADB’s Viet Nam Resident Mission. The unit supports expanding the role of the private sector in contributing to Viet Nam’s socio-economic development. Previously at ADB, he worked on financial sector development in India and Sri Lanka, served as head of the corporate recovery unit, and was a credit risk management