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The poor and vulnerable populations suffer disproportionately from the adverse impacts of climate change and disasters, which result in loss of life, damage to household and community assets, disruption of livelihoods, and loss of income.

This guidebook helps ensure that community training investments are optimized and yield the desired results.

This book presents research into the production of safe, high-quality, and environmentally friendly agriculture products in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Developing countries in Asia have expanded their social protection programs.

Asia and the Pacific has a significant rise in migration: about one in three migrants comes from Asia according to the United Nations.

This publication examines progress on the four main components of fiscal decentralization in Nepal since the country's shift to a federal structure of governance in 2015.

The public-private partnership (PPP) market in Papua New Guinea is at a nascent stage having witnessed only six financially closed PPPs with an investment of $433 million, predominantly in the energy sector.

This publication provides a snapshot of the overall public-private partnership (PPP) landscape in Indonesia.

A reliable energy system is the backbone of a modern economy and essential for well-being.

The Asian Economic Integration Report is an annual review of economic cooperation and integration that covers the 49 members of ADB in Asia and the Pacific.

Climate and disaster risk is increasing in the Asia and Pacific region, exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and creating new ones.

This manual explains how to provide safer road worksites on CAREC roads.

Research indicates that up to 28% of crashes are due to the road environment.

In Nepal, deeply embedded structural conditions determined by gender, caste or ethnicity, religion, language, and even geography have made access to and benefits from energy resources highly uneven.

Reliable supply of 24-hour electricity in the State of Madhya Pradesh since 2014 has transformed the lives of many, including women from low-income households.

The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program, now 16 years in operation, has recorded impressive achievements in regional economic cooperation, particularly in the areas of transport, energy, trade facilitation, and trade policy.

This is a pivotal period in Sri Lanka's economic development.

This study maps out the major weaknesses of each fragile situation on the latest country performance assessment exercises.

Infrastructure projects sometimes physically displace households and disrupt income sources and livelihoods.

An integrated national identification (ID) system offers a means to fast-track the development process by providing the most efficient way to identify people in developing countries.

This case study report describes the comprehensive approach to gender inclusiveness resettlement in the Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project in a remote mountainous region of Quang Nam Province, Viet Nam.

This publication examines the need to expand social protection coverage of the informal sector to support working age productivity, reduce vulnerability, and improve economic opportunity.

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.

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.

Development Asia looks at the lessons learned from a decade of dealing with natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific and at how the region's economic growth could suffer unless it acts collectively on disaster risk.

Asia's population is aging and old-age income support and social services is an emerging challenge.

The rise of Asia's megacities is the upshot of robust economic growth in the region.

The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly was a major breakthrough in the fight against poverty.

Indonesia has adopted community-driven development as a major strategy for poverty reduction, and replicated the approach nationwide through a number of programs.

This book focuses on local government's role in increasing city competitiveness through planning, governance, and finance, particularly in small to medium-sized cities in South Asia.

This publication captures the presentations and discussions of experts and policy makers during the Experts' Roundtable Meeting on Assessing Fragility for a Differentiated Approach in Dealing with Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations, held on 15-16 June 2015 in Bangkok.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a relatively new nation, with half of its population under the age of 18 years.

The report, published 3 years after the devastating tsunami struck on 26 December 2004, endeavors to record key achievements and lessons learned during the recovery and reconstruction efforts that the Asian Development Bank supported in areas affected by this tragedy.

Urbanization will become one of the defining trends of Asia's transformation in the coming decades.

Bhutan has made impressive gains in social, economic, and political development over the years.

Bhutan has experienced extraordinary change since the 1960s when it opened itself to the world and started the process of planned development.

To promote evidence-based policy making, the Asian Development Bank partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in 2012 to deliver a 3-day conference on impact evaluation and public policy in Bangkok.

A crucial issue that confronts development in South Asia is how to build a better life for people displaced by infrastructure development projects.

Inclusive growth needs to be achieved to reduce poverty and other disparities and raise economic growth.

Policy makers in the People's Republic of China have been experimenting with new approaches to environmental management, resulting in a wide array of policy and program innovations under the broad heading of eco-compensation.

This publication suggests solutions that can be built into the design of urban development projects undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to address the common problems and grievances of the urban poor, and to improve urban governance overall.

This report provides insights to investors keen to invest in the region, financial intermediaries that advise social enterprises (SEs) on capital raising, and developers of platforms seeking to connect SEs in the region with impact investors.

Spanish society values families and family life highly, but the way that families look and live has been changing drastically over the past decades.

In the 30 years since the inception of the Unified Health System (Sistema Unico de Saude, or SUS), Brazil has reduced health inequalities, and improved coverage and access to health care.