Shanti works on ADB education sector policies and strategies and provides technical advice and support to ADB’s lending and non-lending education operations. She leads some of the knowledge initiatives and regional technical assistance programs in the education sector. Shanti has worked on policy research studies such as skills for greening economies and Asia’s knowledge-based economies and innovation. She has helped to establish the annual ADB International Skills Development Forum series. Shanti has also led the design of education sector projects for ADB funding in school education, skills development and post-quake school reconstruction in Nepal and Bhutan, and has supported education sector projects in Bangladesh and India. She has over a dozen publications arising from work in ADB. Prior to joining the ADB, Shanti worked with the European Union on development cooperation in South Asia, and with an economic research think tank in India.
Blogs by this Author
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Meet the future transport sector professional
Published on Tuesday, 13 November 2018
Safe and sustainable transport systems demand a new breed of transport professionals, with skills at advanced levels and cutting across domains.
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5 ways to make textbooks relevant in a digital world
Published on Monday, 29 January 2018
Even as developing countries catch up on digital learning, the good old physical textbook should have a key role.
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Why we should invest in secondary education in Nepal
Published on Tuesday, 08 November 2016
Human capital development is an important lever to support Nepal’s vision to graduate from the least developed country level by 2022.
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Reopening schools and rejuvenating hope in Nepal after the earthquake
Published on Saturday, 30 May 2015
How is Nepal getting its education back on track after the deadly earthquake? The government has decided the best way forward is to deploy 15,000 transitional learning centers to re-start the education process immediately.
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APEC 2015: Tapping into the potential of high-value services
Published on Monday, 16 March 2015
Analysts have long argued that the services will help take Asian emerging economies further up the value chain in global markets, but first we need an altogether different lens to look at the sector.
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Women, vocational education and technical jobs
Published on Friday, 27 September 2013
For those of us working in the education sector, gender equality is a critical development outcome we want to see. Several years of advocacy has seen gender parity being achieved in elementary and even secondary school enrollments.
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Mobile Technologies: new frontiers for development
Published on Friday, 12 July 2013
A technology that has circled the world, connected up millions and impacted upon developed and developing countries is mobile telephony. The mobile phone has revolutionized the way we communicate, do business and access products and services.
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Asia’s road to becoming a knowledge economy: A game of catch-up or a game changer?
Published on Thursday, 02 May 2013
This seminar to be held at the 46th Annual Meeting of the ADB Board of Governors today discusses the growing importance of knowledge based economic development for developing Asia.
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Is innovation the new driver of growth?
Published on Monday, 11 March 2013
This topic has been much discussed in recent years. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports argue that capability to innovate and to bring innovation successfully to market is a crucial determinant of global competitiveness.