Asian Development Bank: 958 books
An Eco-Compensation Policy Framework for the People's Republic of China
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Economic growth has multiplied the environmental challenges faced by the People's Republic of China but has also created opportunities, by increasing available funding for environmental management and conservation. At the nexus of these countervailing trends, policy makers have been experimenting...
by Michael G. Plummer, David Cheong, Shintaro Hamanaka
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
This publication displays the menu for choice of available methods to evaluate the impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). It caters mainly to policy makers from developing countries and aims to equip them with some economic knowledge and techniques that will enable them to conduct their own economic...
by Arsenio M. Balisacan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anecdotal evidence permeates accounts on the impact of the global economic crisis on Philippine poverty. This study systematically assesses the evidence and recent data. It adopts a somewhat eclectic approach as applying regression and decomposition techniques to trace the impact of the global economic...
by Rudolf Frauendorfer, Roland Liemberger
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Improving the efficiency of water utilities and reducing water losses are becoming top priorities in Asia, with its often-limited water resources and rapidly increasing urban population. This publication provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject matter, highlights the complexity of managing...
by Jouko Sarvi, Hitendra Pillay
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Higher education institutions in Asia and the Pacific, modeled on industrial age thinking that demands excellence in routinized capacities, lack the ability to innovate and create new knowledge enterprises. The transition to a knowledge economy is affecting the purpose, content, pedagogy, and methodologies...
Public-Private Partnerships in Education
Lessons Learned from the Punjab Education Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Impoverished children living in the remote rural areas and urban slums of Pakistan are not well served by the country's struggling public school system. To provide an alternative, the provincial government of Punjab revitalized the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF), which works with private schools...
Tax Reforms toward Fiscal Consolidation
Policy Options for the Government of the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This policy note assesses tax administration measures and tax rate adjustments, two options for the Philippines' fiscal consolidation in terms of their efficiency for revenue mobilization and impacts on tax equity. Its key findings are: 1) a policy mix of a higher value-added tax and a lower corporate...
The Aftermath of Structural Pension Reform
Managing Legacy Costs of Defined Benefit Pensions in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
India's civil service retirement benefit system, based on a defined benefit scheme, imposed an annual expenditure of over $30 billion on the central and state governments. In an effort to truncate the unfunded scheme, which covers 30 million central and state government employees, the Government of...
Shadow Education
Private Supplementary Tutoring and Its Implications for Policy Makers in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In all parts of Asia, households devote considerable expenditures to private supplementary tutoring. This tutoring may contribute to students' achievement, but it also maintains and exacerbates social inequalities, diverts resources from other uses, and can contribute to inefficiencies in education...
by Giovanni Capannelli, Ravi Kanbur
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
This study explores prospects for inclusive growth in the Central Asia and the South Caucasus region and highlights the central role played by the creation of good jobs. The study reviews economic performance in the region and discusses prospects through 2030, introducing two growth scenarios related...
The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization
Issues in Theory and Challenges in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This publication analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization and the resultant issues and challenges that countries face in practice. It traces the evolution of fiscal decentralization as a significant and consequential global reform that has made subnational governments' key public sector actors...
by David A. Raitzer, Francesco Bosello, Massimo Tavoni
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Climate change is a global concern of special relevance to Southeast Asia, a region that is both vulnerable to the effects of climate change and a rapidly increasing emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs). This study focuses on five countries of Southeast Asia that collectively account for 90% of regional...
Drying Up
What to Do About Droughts in the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Climate change is one of a few major factors that ensure the country will continue to struggle to supply its cities and industries and fields with enough water, particularly in the North, as well as face more frequent and longer droughts. The country has shown a stunningly agile disaster response...
by Qamar Uz Zaman Chaudhry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Catastrophic floods, droughts, and cyclones have plagued Pakistan in recent years. The 2010 flood killed 1,600 people and caused around $10 billion in damage. The 2015 Karachi heat wave led to the death of more than 1,200 people. Climate change-related natural hazards may increase in frequency and...