Development studies

New technologies present governments with opportunities and challenges in a range of key policy areas such as employment, competitiveness, equity, and sustainability.

The annual Asian Development Outlook analyzes economic performance in the past year and offers forecasts for the next 2 years for the 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific that make up developing Asia.

This new strategy for transport development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) consists of a strategic framework covering 2018-2030 and a set of performance indicators initially covering 2018-2022.

A decade after it took form, the Clean Energy Program of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was assessed according to the indicators set out in the 2009 Energy Policy.

Cumulative transport investments under the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program reached $23.

This book examines clean energy financing and approaches in hydropower and demand-side energy efficiency projects.

This publication showcases 50 innovative case studies from cities in the People's Republic of China that are mitigating against and adapting to climate change.

The annual Asian Development Outlook, now in its 30th year, analyzes economic performance in the past year and forecasts performance in the next 2 years for the 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific that make up developing Asia.

Reducing poverty and inequality requires innovative modes of financing.

Asia is the world's largest e-commerce marketplace and continues to grow rapidly.

Single vehicle "e;run-of-road"e; crashes are a significant problem on CAREC roads.

This special supplement to the Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2018 showcases the role that technology can play in improving the quality, timeliness, and frequency of agricultural statistics.

This publication explores how India could boost its exports by addressing nontariff trade barriers.

This report presents nine case studies of recent Asian Development Bank projects in Mongolia, Nepal, the People's Republic of China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, and Viet Nam.

The quarterly Asia Bond Monitor reviews developments in emerging East Asian local currency bond markets.

Asia is graying rapidly: its share of senior population aged 65 and over will double from 9.

Road asset management is one of the top priorities of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Transport and Trade Facilitation Strategy 2020.

ASEAN+3 Bond Market Guide is a comprehensive explanation of the region's bond markets.

Article 6 is a key part of the Paris Agreement.

This publication explores how Sri Lanka could boost its exports by addressing nontariff barriers to trade.

ASEAN+3 Bond Market Guide is a comprehensive explanation of the region's bond markets.

Improved tax systems can help countries in Asia and the Pacific generate the resources needed to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.

This report explores what a global transition to net zero could mean for Asia and the Pacific under a range of climate policy scenarios and provides recommendations.

Single vehicle "e;run-of-road"e; crashes are a significant problem on CAREC roads.

Rapid gender assessments of 12 projects in four countries were undertaken as part of the Asian Development Bank's commitment to improving aid effectiveness.

Reducing poverty and inequality requires innovative modes of financing.

This publication presents a factual overview of the design and implementation of the Korea Emissions Trading Scheme, focusing on lessons from its implementation and opportunities under the Paris Agreement.

This publication was prepared for the Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum (CSIF) to support its efforts to establish central securities depository and real-time gross settlement linkages.

In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death.

In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death.

This book focuses on the transformation of rural places, peoples, and land endemic to the contemporary manifestations of globalization.

An accessible, nuanced introduction to contemporary Russian politics with the theme of stability vs.

Public banks are dynamic, contested institutions with the potential to decarbonize the environment, definancialise the economy, and democratise global development.

Upon its publication in 1989, this was the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Latin American School of Development and an invaluable guide to the major Third World contribution to development theory.

Upon its publication in 1989, this was the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Latin American School of Development and an invaluable guide to the major Third World contribution to development theory.

This book considers the implications, consequences, opportunities and constraints faced when mission and development endeavours coincide.

Der Beruf des öffentlichen Bediensteten ist einerseits eine Ehre und ein Privileg, andererseits aber auch eine große Verantwortung.

Today, with so much know-how existing on this planet, there are still billions of people in extreme poverty.

Kozulj proposes a bold and vital idea: if the activities linked to urban development were reoriented towards the construction and reconstruction of sustainable cities, this would tend to solve a large part of the problem of structural unemployment.

There are lots of fun and religious places in Southeast Asia.

Este libro, desde una visión que busca potenciar las economías y el comercio en la Zona de Integración Fronteriza Ecuatoriana-colombiana, invita al lector a adaptarse a un entorno de inestabilidad, regido por una dinámica cambiante que define las actividades económicas de la zona limítrofe entre ambas naciones.

Kozulj propone una idea audaz y vital: si las actividades vinculadas al desarrollo urbano se reorientaran hacia la construcción y reconstrucción de ciudades sustentables, se tendería a resolver gran parte del problema del desempleo estructural.

With his first book, Better Birder, Michael Ketover emerges as an exciting voice in travel writing.

Este libro surge de la investigación que permitió evaluar la problemática de una de las Zonas de Integración Fronteriza del Acuerdo de Cartagena: la ZIF Ecuador-Colombia, y en las dimensiones que se circunscriben explícitamente entre la Decisión 457 y Decisión 501, de ámbito social, económico, salud, institucional y de integración para el desarrollo tanto de la provincia del Carchi como del departamento de Nariño entre el 2017 y el 2019.

Este libro estudia el transporte autorizado por la Comisión Nacional del Transporte Terrestre, Tránsito y Seguridad Vial, organismo nacional competente de transporte por carretera, en cumplimiento de lo establecido en la Decisión 399 de la Comisión de la Comunidad Andina, su reglamento y normas nacionales, que operan en el tráfico internacional de mercancías por carretera entre Ecuador-Colombia, en la frontera Tulcán-Ipiales.

Giovanni Burrascano investigates why and how Western thinking has changed over the last five hundred years, affecting the human condition, natural world, and you.