Asian Development Bank: 821 books
Philippines: Urban Sector Assessment, Strategy, and Road Map
Urban Sector Assessment, Strategy, and Road Map
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This publication documents the current assessment and strategic investment priorities of the Government of the Philippines and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the country's urban sector. It highlights sector performance, priority development constraints, government plans and strategies, past ADB...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The 2012 Development Effectiveness Review (DEfR) is the sixth annual corporate performance report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The review found that the development effectiveness review process introduced in 2008 has successfully propagated a results culture across ADB. This has led to improved...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This publication examines the performance of the Asian Development Bank in achieving the goals of Strategy 2020, one of the institution's long-term planning documents. It tracks recent development progress in Asia and the Pacific, assesses ADB's development effectiveness, and identifies areas where...
Administrative Data Sources for Compiling Millennium Development Goals and Related Indicators
A Reference Handbook on Using Data from Education, Health, and Vital Registration Systems Featuring Practices and Experiences from Selected Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The handbook is one of the outputs of the Asian Development Bank regional technical assistance on Improving Administrative Data Sources for the Monitoring of the Millennium Development Goals Indicators. It serves as a reference tool for data producers on improving administrative data sources for compiling...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The economies of the People’s Republic of China and India have seen dramatic growth in recent years. As their respective successes continue to reshape the world’s economic landscape, noted Chinese and Indian scholars have studied the two countries’ development paths, in particular their rich and...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This publication highlights priorities and strategies in meeting current and emerging needs for skills development in South Asia. The report is in line with the Asian Development Bank's effort to support its developing member countries' priorities toward global competitiveness, increased productivity,...
Development Effectiveness Report 2011
Private Sector Operations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The private sector contributes to economic development by generating jobs and incomes, as well as through investments, new technologies, knowledge transfer, and enhanced productivity. This is particularly true in Asia and the Pacific, where much of the recent success in reducing poverty has been due...
Asian Economic Integration Monitor
July 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
The Asian Economic Integration Monitor is a semiannual review of Asia's regional economic cooperation and integration. It covers 48 regional member countries of the Asian Development Bank. This issue includes a special section---Regional Integration: A Balanced View.
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been working closely with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China (PRC), Japan, and the Republic of Korea---collectively known as ASEAN+3---to promote the development of local currency bond markets in the region through...
Development Effectiveness Report 2017
Private Sector Operations
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In 2017, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) changed its reporting of new projects from approvals to the commitment of funds which are more closely aligned with the resources made available for development purposes. Commitments of ADB's Private Sector Operations Department reached a record level in 2017....
Strengthening Public Pension Systems in Asia
Proceedings of the 2015 ADB–PPI Conference on Public Pension Systems in Asia, Focus: Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Viet Nam, and Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Asia’s population is aging and old-age income support and social services is an emerging challenge. Strengthening pension systems in Asia is therefore a key concern for inclusive development in the region. In many Asian countries, pension systems are still inadequate in terms of both coverage and...
Asian Development Outlook 2010 Update
The Future of Growth in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Asian Development Outlook 2010 Update provides recent economic forecasts for countries in the region. Since the release of the Asian Development Outlook 2010 in April, developing Asia's performance has strengthened further. This Update raises the 2010 growth forecast to 8.2% on the back of strong results in the first half of the year.
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The global economic crisis has swept across Asia and brought into sharp focus attempts by nations to cooperate and to integrate their economies. In many ways, the financial crisis of the late 1990s led to the formation of regional cooperation mechanisms to stabilize markets and currencies in times...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The report describes key features of ADB's operations in India and how these have evolved to support the Government of India's focus on high, inclusive and sustainable growth. As of December 2012, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) had approved 168 sovereign loans amounting to $27.2 billion and 344...