On Wednesday, April 29th, ISET hosted Mr. Donghyun Park, Asian Development Bank’s Principal Economist at Economics and Research Department. Mr. Park presented recently published ADB's Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2015 Theme Chapter “Financing Asia’s Future Growth”. ADO is the annual flagship report of the Asian Development Bank.
On the presentation Mr. Park explained the role of a sound and efficient financial system in sustaining the region’s future growth. He started with explaining the existing dichotomy in Asian countries: many Asian countries (e.g. South Korea) have world class manufacturing sectors, while financial sector is relatively underdeveloped.
On Wednesday, April 22nd Armenian students of ISET organized an event called “Armenian Cuisine Day” as a part of ISET cultural event series aiming to introduce diverse cultures presented here to the entire ISET Community.
ISET cafeteria was occupied by Armenian cooks from the morning who were preparing Armenian national dishes, namely Harisa and Tpov Dolma. Some part of the cooking was done outside the kitchen so that people in cafeteria could see how these delightful dishes are actually prepared in Armenia.
The event started at 5 o’clock and consisted of two main parts.