Value-added tax (VAT) generates significant government revenue in many countries and given their broad coverage, VAT measurements are useful indicators for economic and fiscal analyses.
For ADB members in Asia and the Pacific, stronger tax systems are now more important than ever-to boost revenues enabling recovery from the economic shocks of COVID-19, and to reinforce implementation of Sustainable Development Goals.
This report provides an update on the local currency sustainable bond markets in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the People's Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (ASEAN+3).
Active use of local currency-denominated bonds for cross-border collateral transactions could help the development of regional bond markets by mitigating risks, reducing the credit costs of financial institutions, and expanding market liquidity.
This report explores how the central securities depository and real-time gross settlement (CSD-RTGS) linkage model could be applied to collective investment scheme (CIS) passporting frameworks in Asia to enhance the post-trade efficiency of the region's bond markets.
This guidebook provides practical tips and resources for conducting quality socioeconomic surveys to enhance the effectiveness of urban development and water projects.
This report is a key resource for understanding the dynamic trade and production linkages of East Asian economies to support data-driven policy making and implementation.
This publication examines Mongolia's recent economic development and outlines reforms that would help the country take advantage of its many opportunities.
This report uses a broad range of indicators to assess the individual and collective development progress made by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
This publication provides an overview of institutional investors' interest in green bonds issued in Cambodia, along with an assessment of the perspectives of local arrangers and underwriters on their clients' interest in green bond issuances.
Assessing how Asia and the Pacific can benefit from stronger tax systems, this comparative analysis drills down into the set-ups and performance of revenue bodies in 41 economies to highlight reform challenges and outline opportunities.
The BRICS Awakening Kazan 2024 - New Developments and Western ReactionsIn the context of the current geopolitical upheavals and economic realignments, the book *"e;The BRICS Awakening Kazan 2024 - New Developments and Western Reactions"e;* presents up-to-date, in-depth insights into the growing importance of the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) on the world stage.
Son escasos los trabajos que, conociendo en profundidad la temática, abordan la cuestión de las empresas familiares, con sus peculiaridades que tanto las distinguen.
"e;Principles of Duality: The Quest for Balance in the World"e;Discover the profound connections of duality that shape our lives and the world we live in.
This textbook offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the theory behind price indices, covering the basics, historical background, necessary mathematical foundations, and contemporary cutting-edge theories.
While recent developments in monetary theory have been fast to spread to policy analysis and practice and the media, the same is not true of fiscal policy, and a void has emerged.
Der Verkehr ist sowohl eine Voraussetzung fur wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand und die Wahrnehmung personlicher Freiheitsrechte als auch ein bedeutender Verursacher lokaler und globaler Umweltprobleme.
This book extensively examines various contemporary public finance themes of India, namely fiscal policy and macro economy, public expenditure policy, tax policy, fiscal transfers policy, public debt policy and fiscal imbalance, and environment and climate finance policies.
This book explains the theoretical and empirical foundations for constructing a measure of a country's Green GDP and how this measure relates to the conventional GDP.
