Asian Development Bank: 821 books

This report summarizes the investments in clean energy made by the operations departments of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2013, condensing information from project databases and formal reports in an easy-to-reference format. This report was prepared by ADB's Clean Energy Program which provides...

This study describes the areas of focus of operations for the Pacific Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), identifies key gaps between country and ADB actions, as well as opportunities for scaling up ADB's assistance related to mitigation, adaptation, and associated crosscutting needs....

This report provides a baseline of the capacity of Asian Development Bank developing member countries to generate, analyze, disseminate, and use sex-disaggregated data. It introduces a framework on gender statistics and guides in assessing statistical systems in the Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan,...

This publication shows the historical energy trends and the latest energy structures of 48 regional members, both the developed and developing members, of the Asian Development Bank. It contains energy demand and supply analysis, country energy profiles, and energy balance tables of each member country in the Asia and Pacific region.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) supported the provincial authorities of Quang Nam in Viet Nam to scale up the implementation of payments for forest environmental services (PFES) through a technical assistance financed by the Governments of Sweden and Norway. The project pilot-tested two innovations---the...

The Sanjiang Plain wetlands are among the most important wetlands in the People’s Republic of China with unique habitats, species, and ecology. There is a considerable body of literature devoted to various aspects of the Sanjiang Plain wetlands including their ecological values. Building on lessons...

The Japan Fund for Public Policy Training was established in March 2004 as a trust fund to enhance developing member countries' capacity building for public policy management, focusing on regional economies in transition. Since its inception, the Government of Japan has contributed more than $22 million....

This report summarizes the current state of water pollution and water pollution management strategies in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It also provides specific recommendations for implementing market-based policy instruments, such designed to mitigate water pollution and its negative effects....

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to develop and update a comprehensive set of comparable and accessible data to help measure performance of social protection programs in Asia. The Social Protection Indicator (SPI) report presents data on government social protection programs collected...

The Asian Development Bank has actively supported the Government of the Republic of the Philippines' Department of Budget and Management in institutionalizing results-based management across the country's bureaucracy. This guide to the Results-Based Management Framework (RBMF) provides a common reference...

This study was conducted by the Asian Development Bank to assess the impact of projects involving the construction of dams on aquatic biodiversity in Nepal. The findings may not be authoritative, but conclusions suggest that fish populations and the diversity of species are a ected due to alterations in the ecosystem and blockage in life cycle movements.

This evaluation focuses on the Asian Development Bank (ADB) interventions to stimulate energy efficiency investments in industry and buildings. Among the key findings is that energy pricing and market imperfections need to be addressed to promote energy efficiency investments. ADB and governments...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to developing and updating a comprehensive set of comparable and accessible data to help measure performance of social protection programs in Asia and the Pacific. This 2016 report is the first comprehensive assessment of government social protection programs...

This report summarizes outcomes of collaboration between ADB and implementing agencies of Bhutan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, the Philippines, and Viet Nam to address gaps in the production of agricultural and rural statistics. This compendium of six research papers is a component of the Asian...