Brookings Institution Press: 357 books
Getting India Back on Track
An Action Agenda for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
India has fallen far and fast from the runaway growth rates it enjoyed in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In order to reverse this trend, New Delhi must seriously reflect on its policy choices across a wide range of issue areas.
Getting India Back on Track broadly coincides...
by ADBI
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This is the final report of the Asian Development Bank Institute study Connecting Central Asia with Economic Centers. The study focuses on the five Central Asian economies: Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
The aim of the study is to examine the pattern...
Oil to Cash
Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
What should a country do if it suddenly discovers oil and gas? How should it spend the subsequent cash windfall? How can it protect against corruption? How can citizens truly benefit from national wealth? With many of the world's poorest and most fragile states suddenly joining the ranks of oil and...
Millions Saved
New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Over the past fifteen years, people in low- and middle-income countries have experienced a health revolution-one that has created new opportunities and brought new challenges. It is a revolution that keeps mothers and babies alive, helps children grow, and enables adults to thrive.
Millions...
Kazakhstan
Unfulfilled Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
At the outset of independence 18 years ago, Kazakhstan's leaders promised that the country's rich natural resources, with oil and gas reserves among the largest in the world, would soon bring economic prosperity. It appeared that democracy was beginning to take hold in this newly independent state....
The Third Force
The Rise of Transnational Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
From the landmines campaign to the Seattle protests against the WTO to the World Commission on Dams, transnational networks of civil society groups are seizing an ever-greater voice in how governments run countries and how corporations do business. This volume brings together a multinational group...
Greenprint
A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Beleaguered by mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, squeezed by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by shifts in economic and hence bargaining power between these countries, international cooperation on climate change has floundered. Given these...
The Uncertain Legacy of Crisis
European Foreign Policy Faces the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The European Union is mired in the worst crisis it has seen for many decades. And the crisis does not stop at Europe's edge. It threatens to undercut the EU's ambitions to develop a coherent and active foreign policy, but it is also forcing European states to reevaluate their approach to security...
The Rebirth of Education
Schooling Ain't Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. In India's rural Andhra Pradesh, for instance, only about one in twenty children in fifth grade can perform basic arithmetic.
The problem is that schooling is not the...
Integrating SMEs into Global Value Chains
Challenges and Policy Actions in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Globalized production networks, or global value chains, provide an opportunity for SMEs to upscale their business models and to grow across borders. This process can enhance SME competitiveness, create more jobs, and promote inclusive growth in developing Asia. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and...
Cash on Delivery
A New Approach to Foreign Aid
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Foreign aid has no shortage of critics. Some argue that it undermines development and inherently does more harm than good; others insist that aid must be seriously reformed to work properly. Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning...
Open Networks, Closed Regimes
The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
As the Internet diffuses across the globe, many have come to believe that the technology poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule. Grounded in the Internet's early libertarian culture and predicated on anecdotes pulled from diverse political climates, this conventional wisdom has informed...
ASEAN, PRC, and India
The Great Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Asia’s remarkable economic performance and transformation since the 1960s has shifted the center of global economic activity toward Asia, in particular toward the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economies, the People’s Republic of China, and India (collectively known as ACI).
While...
Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad
In Search of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
"Over the past decade, Carothers has established himself as the leading U.S. expert on democracy promotion. He is a powerful critic not only of the nuts-and-bolts of democracy assistance but also of U.S. grand strategy overall."-SAIS Review Promoting the rule of law has become a major part...