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Asian Development Bank
This report shows why Tajikistan, Central Asia's least urbanized economy, should increase the number of people living in its cities and diversify its economy to capitalize on the demographic dividend…
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Typical agriculture sectors like animal production and processing, aquaculture and its processing, and fruit and vegetable processing, can be water-intensive and generate complex and sometimes severe pollution.
This edition of the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Guide series focuses on updates in the Republic of Korea's (ROK) market since the publication of the previous guide for the ROK in…
This publication looks at ways ADB can harness artificial intelligence (AI) to improve its internal processes and help countries in Asia and the Pacific better anticipate and prepare for growing…
Provides new data and analysis on well-being among older people in Asia and the Pacific and suggests how policymakers in the region can help people age well. The report explores…
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This manual explains how to identify and address hazardous traffic blackspots in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries to help save lives, reduce injuries, and support economies.
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This publication highlights the potential of rapidly growing low-cost airlines in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program countries to improve connectivity, increase tourism, and generate economic benefits.
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This report highlights how sexual and gender minorities in countries across Asia and the Pacific face discrimination and violence, assesses the legal barriers impacting their lives, and shows how policy…
This report analyzes how rising nonperforming loans (NPL) pose a risk to banking sector stability in some Asia and Pacific economies and shows how electronic trading platforms can strengthen NPL…
Analyzing how Asia and the Pacific's online job portal data can be used to assess labor market and broader economic trends, this report explains why improving data quality and tackling…
This publication looks at five projects in the People's Republic of China to illustrate how effective solutions to environmental and social problems can be applied in different contexts.
Designed to walk ADB staff through a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment simulation, this handbook outlines training schedules, introduces methodologies, and provides practical exercises to identify and analyze the broad impacts of…
This report shows how overlapping demographic, digital, and green transitions are reshaping jobs in Asia and the Pacific and explores how integrated policies can help harness the growth potential of…
This handbook shows how ADB-backed infrastructure projects in Asia and the Pacific can integrate employability and skills development by delivering work-based youth traineeship opportunities that amplify project benefits.
This practice guide aims to help procurement practitioners integrate youth traineeship specifications into key bidding documents for ADB-supported infrastructure projects in Asia and the Pacific.
Assesses how to finance an extensive overhaul of transport infrastructure in the BIMSTEC subregion, considers the challenges of public and private financing, and outlines how to create an overarching financial…
Examining how the livelihoods, health, and well-being of women in Central and West Asia were disproportionately affected by the pandemic, this report assesses responses and considers how the experience can…
To bolster economic and financial analyses through national account statistics, this publication presents a model developed by ADB to provide a more consistent measure of non-recoverable VAT on products. The…
ADB's South Asia Department conducted a study to assess the status and responses to the needs of disadvantaged groups in its member countries and identify entry points for greater gender…
A road map which shows how Bangladesh can swap diesel irrigation pumps for solar powered systems to reduce fuel imports, increase farmers' incomes, and support the country's clean energy transition.
Introduces the Global Integration Index as a tool to explore how global and regional integration affect development outcomes. The 43 indicators in the index include digital connectivity and environmental cooperation…
Analyses how Indonesia’s manufacturing sector could diversify and upgrade during the 2020-2024 period and beyond. The report asserts that policy makers and the private sector need to collaborate to identify…
This summary organizes the theme papers, findings, and recommendations that were presented at the Regional Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Poverty Reduction, including the proposed regional plan of action that…
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Setting out the problems in defining indigenous peoples, this report gives a general overview of these groups in the Philippines, including their demographic profile, distribution, and sociocultural features. The state’s…
The volume consisting of seven papers, start with a bird’s eye view of the growth experience in recent years. It proceeds to explore the composition of government budgets to examine…
This publication explores how data from ships' Automatic Identification System (AIS) can be used to produce near real-time, granular statistics for analyzing maritime activities and detecting disruptions to port operations.
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The report reviews trade facilitation progress in Asia and the Pacific and explores how technology can help bridge trade finance gaps.
Continued growth is expected in the Pacific, but governments need to generate additional resources for public infrastructure and services essential to sustaining economic development.
This publication assesses the Kyrgyz Republic's rising exposure to landslides and looks at how ADB is providing a $35 million finance package to develop a risk reduction program designed to…
Detailing how Australia's Therapeutics Goods Administration conducted horizon scanning for new vaccines during the pandemic to assist ADB, this report is designed to help countries in Asia and the Pacific…
This edition analyzes how financial conditions weakened and bond yields rose in most emerging East Asian markets between 1 September and 10 November amid expectations that the United States Federal…
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The operations of the Asian Development Bank in fragile and conflict-affected situations, small island developing states, and emergency situations are confronted with numerous challenges specific to each country, region, and…
This manual provides an overview of climate-driven stressors relevant to transport infrastructure in Central Asia and explores adaptation strategies.
This framework outlines how to integrate gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) into ADB's operations in South Asia to help close the gender gap, combat exclusion, and bolster equitable economic…
This report highlights lessons from the implementation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Accountability Mechanism Policy 2012 during 2019-2021. The Accountability Mechanism was established to help people affected by projects…
