Bart W. Édes is director of the Asian Development Bank’s poverty reduction, gender, and social development division, and chairman of ADB’s social development and poverty community of practice.
Governments in the Asia-Pacific region will have to commit to the reform and expansion of social protection programs if they want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. In this guest column, Bart Édes, director at the sustainable development and climate change department of the Asian Development Bank, shares more of his insights.
