Asian Development Bank: 958 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Kazakhstan has the potential to become an economic leader in Central Asia. Relying on oil and gas alone, however, will not produce the long-run level of growth needed to meet this potential. Reforms geared to improve the business climate, enhance competitiveness, and increase private sector participation...
by Joe Bolger
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The study contains analyses and recommendations on the approaches to capacity development that work best and the conditions that have been conducive to their success, the unique challenges faced by Pacific developing member countries in addressing capacity constraints, and the implications for future interventions at both the strategic and operational levels.
Achieving Skill Mobility in the ASEAN Economic Community
Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Despite clear aspirations by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to create an effective and transparent framework to facilitate movements among skilled professionals within the ASEAN by December 2015, progress has been slow and uneven. This report examines the challenges ASEAN member...
Pension Systems in East and Southeast Asia
Promoting Fairness and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Population aging poses two major challenges for Asian policy makers: (i) sustaining rapid economic growth in the face of less favorable demographic conditions; and (ii) providing affordable, adequate, sustainable old-age income support for a large and growing elderly population. This book explores...
Review and Compendium of Environmental Policies and Laws in Bhutan
Input to the Asian Judges Network on Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This Review and Compendium of Environmental Policies and Laws in Bhutan aims to facilitate access to information for all stakeholders engaged in the environment sector, in particular for the Judiciary and administrative officials responsible for overseeing the protection of the country's natural resources....
Bangladesh Financial Sector
An Agenda for Further Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The finance sector in Bangladesh remains at an early stage of development. It needs to be strengthened and invigorated so it can fulfill its dual role of reducing poverty and promoting economic growth. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the finance sector in Bangladesh and pinpoints areas of weakness in its subsectors.
Deconcentration and Decentralization Reforms in Cambodia
Recommendations for an Institutional Framework
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This study analyzes strategic and programming issues arising from the emerging deconcentration and decentralization reforms in Cambodia and informs the debate on the pace and strategic direction of these reforms. The study looks at the evolving legal and regulatory framework pointing to the gaps and...
Trade and Investment in Services
An ADB–ITD Training Module for the Greater Mekong Subregion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
This training module highlights the central contribution of services to development and the role of trade and investment liberalization and effective regulation in key service sectors. It distills a number of policy- and rule-making insights arising from the practice of trade and investment liberalization...
by Selim Raihan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Financial soundness indicators (FSIs) are compiled to monitor the health and soundness of financial institutions and markets, and of their corporate and household counterparts. With support from the Investment Climate Facilitation Fund under the Regional Cooperation and Integration Financing Facility,...
Social Protection for Older Persons
Social Pensions in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
The rising number of older persons in Asia has accentuated the importance of strengthening the systems of social protection in the region. This book examines the effectiveness and relevance of noncontributory or social pensions in supporting older persons in Asia. It discusses the political economy...
Transitions to K–12 Education Systems
Experiences from Five Case Countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
With more than 140 countries currently offering or in transition to a kindergarten through grade 12 (K–12) school education system, this desk study explored the experiences of four countries---Mongolia, Philippines, Poland, and Turkey---and one Canadian province, Ontario, in preparing and implementing...
by Qingfeng Zhang, Michael T. Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The People's Republic of China (PRC) is seeking new approaches to improve water management outcomes in the face of a growing water crisis caused by ongoing pollution control and watershed management challenges. This has included numerous experiments in "eco-compensation" (which shares characteristics...
The Political Economy of Economic Reform in the Pacific
Executive Summary
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This collection of studies on the political economy of Pacific island countries was authored by writers from various disciplinary backgrounds. Their research confirms the results of political economy studies of economic reform in developing countries from elsewhere around the world and shines new...
Searching for Effective Poverty Interventions
Conditional Cash Transfers in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Conditional cash transfer (CCT), which was initiated in 2007, is becoming a centerpiece of the social protection system in the Philippines. This note reviews economic rationales for transferring a cash grant to the poor contingent on their certain behavior, major challenges in designing a CCT program,...