Restoring wildlife habitat around Shivnagari, Ajmer, Rajasthan has ensured that domestic animals of the village are no longer under threat. This has also meant better pastureland for the cattle with...
by Anjali P Iyer | On 13 Feb 2021 Fisher unions and farming communities of Manipur, India, commemorated the 2021 World Wetlands Day (2nd February) at Tonoma Chingjin, Mamang Ching, Pumlen Pat - a wetland devastated by the Ithai Barrag...
by | On 05 Feb 2021 The mere passing of laws and regulations to preserve village commons, regenerate natural resources and enrich villages does not ensure their operationalisation. What is needed is a concerted attempt t...
by Anjali P Iyer | On 23 Jan 2021 While tourism may support a town economy, it can also damage the environment and ecology of the surrounding villages and destroy common grazing lands. Here’s how two villages fought to preserve their...
by Anjali P Iyer | On 06 Dec 2020 The global spread of COVID-19 has restricted the anthropogenic activities across
the world. This has led to some unexpected alterations in the environment. As
industries, transport networks, and b...
by Ankit Sikarwar | On 18 May 2020 Extant studies deciphering public expenditure on old-age income support in India carry limitations on (a) system expanse, (b) corresponding data collation, and therefore (c) depth of resource conscrip...
by Mukesh Kumar Anand | On 02 Apr 2019 Along with the continuous development of the global economy, environmental deterioration has been widely recognized as a pressing issue nowadays, bringing environmental governance to the forefront of...
by Chun-Ping Chang | On 28 Mar 2019 Darryl D’Monte, veteran journalist passed away on March 16, 2019 in Mumbai. He was 75.
by | On 24 Mar 2019 In September 2015, the world committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have broad and interconnected social, economic, social, econo...
by Jose Ramon Albert | On 20 Mar 2019 This paper takes an overview of the concepts and features of central bank money and private sector money and focuses on the actual performance of these types of money in selected advanced and emerging...
by Sayuri Shirai | On 18 Feb 2019 Systematically, a way of life has been undermined and destroyed to make way for a frantic frenzy of construction: Two international airports, superfast highways, over-passes, underpasses, a second tra...
by Nazar da Silva | On 14 Feb 2019 The paper reviews green markets, technologies, and practices with a focus on developing Asian countries, and offers a set of policy options to enable governments and development finance institutions t...
by Daniele Ponzi | On 29 Jan 2019 This paper investigates the effects of the Basel II capital requirement implementation in Viet Nam on the bank lending rate and national output. The paper provides a theoretical framework as well as e...
by Nguyet Thi Minh Phi | On 28 Jan 2019 In recent years, many emerging economies including India have adopted inflation targeting framework. Post the global financial crisis, there is a growing debate on whether monetary policy should targe...
by Ila Patnaik | On 23 Jan 2019 This paper assesses the accuracy of Asian Development Outlook growth and inflation forecasts for 43 Asian economies from 2007 to 2016, against the benchmark of World Economic Outlook projections by th...
by Benno Ferrarini | On 22 Jan 2019 This article applies theoretical concepts from the law and economics literature on insolvency to identify the sources of these two problems in insolvency law. It then applies these theoretical concept...
by Pratik Datta | On 07 Jan 2019 This paper provides 10 conclusions on the policies needed to achieve three goals of agricultural development in India. These are : (1) There is a need for change in the narrative in the new context; (...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 26 Dec 2018 This paper analyzes the evolution of the labor share of income in Asia, a region where countries have experienced steep declines and increases as well as stable labor income shares in the quarter-cent...
by Mitali Das | On 13 Dec 2018 Basmati rice is Pakistan’s celebrated export. After years of growth, Pakistan’s production and export of basmati has slipped and is on a downward trend. The absence of a strong research and developmen...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 13 Dec 2018 This paper extends this literature by considering a heterogeneous labor market with capital-skill complementarity. Technological advancement, global integration, regulation of labor market and structu...
by Saumik Paul | On 21 Nov 2018 This paper contributes to the literature in two ways: First, it delineates a concrete application of DLTs in the field of green financing, which offers the potential to increase social welfare. Second...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 20 Nov 2018 Selfless activists like Mr. Pai teach us the importance of continuously interrogating the functioning of our democracy. The NPA issue has persisted for almost a decade. It has eroded the profitability...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Oct 2018 The paper examines behavioral constraints in policy-making and in achieving coordination across policies. First it applies psychological concepts to understand policy inadequacies, and next examines h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Oct 2018 This paper develops an environmental dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (E-DSGE) model with heterogeneous production sectors. In particular, the model comprises some low-carbon emission firms that...
by Maria Teresa Punzi | On 19 Oct 2018 Lack of access to reliable information on environmental exposure limits opportunities for risk avoiding behavior, particularly in developing countries. Private markets could potentially play a role in...
by Ricardo Maertens | On 04 Oct 2018 This paper studies the optimal structure of procurement contracts between public and private sectors by mainly comparing two typical procurement types: traditional procurement and public–private partn...
by Hojun Lee | On 27 Sep 2018 This paper takes a New Keynesian model with non-separable money in utility to Indian data using maximum likelihood. The identification problem in isolating the effect of money on output and inflation...
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Sep 2018 Innovation is recognized as an important driver of productivity, sustained economic growth, and development. It is also a key to finding enduring solutions to socioeconomic and environmental challenge...
by Jose Ramon G. Albert | On 04 Sep 2018 The paper constructs a new measure of the changing generosity of deposit insurance for many countries, empirically model the international influences on the adoption and generosity of deposit insuranc...
by Charles W. Calomiris | On 03 Sep 2018 This paper analyzes a critical aspect of expanding private finance to infrastructure by examining the role of bank lending to public–private partnership (PPP) projects through the project finance moda...
by Vivek Rao | On 24 Aug 2018 The expansion of green renewable energy has been very limited in all the Asian countries, despite their various differences. The contributing factors are numerous, but, the financial factor has been t...
by Hooman Peimani | On 16 Aug 2018 This study attempts to understand the role of greater access to finance, i.e., stocks, bonds, and bank loans, in public–private partnership (PPP) investment in developing countries. Most developing co...
by Suk Hyun | On 10 Aug 2018 This paper verifies the impact of bank account information, such as information on deposits and withdrawals, that is not necessarily fully accounted for in conventional internal ratings and that can a...
by Naoko Nemoto | On 10 Aug 2018 The Islamic finance industry has grown substantially in Asia over the last 2 decades. The Muslim populations in different Asian countries, especially in Southeast Asia, are increasing. Rapid Muslim po...
by Akbar Komijani | On 27 Jul 2018 This short paper has two main sections. The first section presents a more detailed picture and overview of the macroeconomic performance of the Philippines behind the Philippines’ remarkable growth. T...
by Maureen Ane D. Rosellon | On 06 Jul 2018 This Policy Note revisits the risk management policy of BSP as a guide in strengthening the competitiveness of Philippine banks. It also recommends measures to further refine the banking system in the...
by Roberto Miguel S. Roque | On 29 Jun 2018 Pakistan-China relations date back to the Silk Route, but the formal ties began in 1950. Pakistan was the first Muslim country to recognize China as People's Republic and Pakistan International Airlin...
by Mahmood A. Khwaja | On 28 Jun 2018 This paper investigates the public participation (PP) process in environmental impact assessments (EIA) of three large-scale hydropower plants (HPs) in Nepal, with a view to improving the PP process t...
by Jon Munch-Petersen | On 27 Jun 2018 The paper makes an analysis of cash holdings in India and attempts to test its association with tax effort and government spending. The finding arrived is that the ratio of Cash holding to Nominal GDP...
by R. Mohan | On 21 Jun 2018 India has experienced a remarkable proliferation of 48 Government Funded Health Insurance Schemes (GFHIS) from 1997 to 2018. The paper places the rise of this policy pathway in historical perspective....
by Ila Patnaik | On 15 Jun 2018 This paper uses measures of international transport time, in median and standard deviation, based on shipment-level data from the Universal Postal Union, to analyze the effect of time on trade costs....
by Utsav Kumar | On 14 Jun 2018 This paper assesses the effects of the most recent monetary policy behavior of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) (in particular, zero interest rate policy and negative interest rate policy) and Japanese tax pol...
by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary | On 09 Jun 2018 By employing a sample of 20,956 observations of non-financial SMEs headquartered in the Euro area, between 2009 and 2015, the paper tests whether young businesses are more likely to face credit reject...
by Danilo V. Mascia | On 06 Jun 2018 This paper studies the effects of firms’ investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their demand for female and skilled workers. Using the gradual liberalization of the broadba...
by Natalie Chun | On 31 May 2018 This paper investigates and tests the role of regional exposures in financial contagion from advanced to emerging market economies through the global banking network using data on cross-border bilater...
by Cyn Young Park | On 31 May 2018 In what turned out to be a most engrossing discussion on “Can Inter-linking our Rivers and Greening their Banks save our Cities?” organized by Environment Support Group at Ashirvad, Bangalore, on Dece...
by Environment Support Group (ESG) | On 25 May 2018 Between March 15 2017 and June 15 2017, 207 projects that violated the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification applied for an environmental clearance. These applications have come as a result...
by Krithika Dinesh | On 13 Apr 2018 The economic growth outlook for developing Asia remains vibrant.
Asian Development Outlook 2018
foresees continued momentum after growth
accelerated to 6.1% in 2017. The region is expected to ex...
by Asian Bank | On 12 Apr 2018 Taiwan has one of the world’s largest DWFs, with over 1,800 vessels flying the Taiwanese flag
operating across the world and hundreds of Taiwanese-owned vessels flying other flags.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 09 Apr 2018 There is increasing evidence of drying springs, decreasing spring discharge, and deteriorating spring water quality in many parts of the HKH.
by International Centre Mountain Development | On 04 Apr 2018 In a theoretical model of an environmentally conscious (“green”) monopolist, we show that increasing greenness does not always mean lower output and environmental damages. The Author assumes that a gr...
by Rupayan Pal | On 04 Apr 2018 The paper says that the mountains may appear to be one of the few geographic areas less affected by biological invasion.
by Bharat Shrestha | On 03 Apr 2018 We study the role of the bank-lending channel in propagating fluctuations in commodity
prices to credit aggregates and economic activity in developing countries. We use data
on more than 1,600 banks...
by | On 30 Mar 2018 To what extent do the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and
the World Bank remain central today and how much influence do they still wield in shaping
the global agenda? While...
by | On 30 Mar 2018 This study says that for a long time, textile and clothing have played an important role in the
economic development of the country.
by Afia Malik | On 26 Mar 2018 The demand for environmental quality is often presumed to be low in developing
countries due to poverty. Less attention has been paid to the possibility that lack
of awareness about the adverse heal...
by | On 22 Mar 2018 Four decades of neoliberal market fundamentalism and its relentless assault on the public
sector and our understandings of publicness have generated a profound crisis of social
reproduction and envi...
by | On 21 Mar 2018 The paper says that children working in the Mines from an early age are likely to burn themselves out by the time they reach 30 or 35 years.
by Helen Sekar | On 13 Mar 2018 There is a large concentration of chemical firms around Mumbai, and the Maharashtra
Pollution Control Board has been actively monitoring them. However, there is a large
variation in the degree of co...
by | On 13 Mar 2018 The paper focuses on the educational/skill level of the workforce, and on what needs to be done, especially by registered sector employers to address the labour market educational/skills challenge.
by Santosh Mehrotra | On 09 Mar 2018 In view of the need for an appropriate institutional architecture to address the food security concerns in South
Asia, issues of proper operationalisation of the SAARC Food Bank (SFB) have assumed cr...
by | On 06 Mar 2018 This paper examines the health status of females in the state of Kerala, India. The state is ranked at the top in terms of human development index, social development index and gender development inde...
by N. Ajith Kumar | On 05 Mar 2018 Microcredit is essentially utilised as the source of empowerment among
the poor women in both rural and urban areas of the Indian states. Based
on a panel of the Indian states for the period 2007 to...
by | On 27 Feb 2018 The paper examines how endogenous social preferences could affect economic incentive design to encourage biodiversity protection on private land. A 'green' farmer may enjoy esteem from leading by exam...
by Rupayan Pal | On 22 Feb 2018 The foremost aim of the study was to investigate and analyze the relationship of General Mental Ability,
Interest and home environmentwith Academic Achievement.Methods:The participants were 110 stude...
by | On 12 Feb 2018 The paper says that the region is plagued with piracy and has also witnessed maritime terrorism related activities, drug smuggling, gun running and illegal migration.
by Vijay Sakhuja | On 09 Feb 2018 The report says that the fact that transnational spread of disease does pose a threat to national security, is well entrenched now.
by Animesh Roul | On 09 Feb 2018 This paper analyses the interrelationships between gender, poverty and environmental change
in rural India, focusing especially on variations across regions and shifts over time during the
past two...
by Bina Agarwal | On 05 Feb 2018 Budget speech of Finance Minister of Kerala.
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 05 Feb 2018 The brief talks about supporting local democracy in forestry is crucial for enhancing local people’s wellbeing.
by Jesse Ribot | On 02 Feb 2018 During 2017-18 (till January), monetary policy remained steady with only one policy rate cut
in August. As the Y-o-Y effect of demonetisation wore off, the growth rate of both Currency in
Circulatio...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 This chapter draws on cross-country experience
to study the pattern of investment and saving slowdowns as well as recoveries in order to obtain
policy lessons for India. One finding is that investme...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 ‘Lived place’ refers to the subject perception of place. It is concrete and based on experience. For the tribal communities staying or camping in the forest, it is their ‘lived place’ about which they...
by | On 12 Jan 2018 A Bill further to amend the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act, 1981. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:
This Act may be ca...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 09 Jan 2018 The paper explored participatory aspects of local democracy in Aceh and some major challenges
in South Aceh for people’s participation in local decision-making processes.
by Leena Avonius | On 08 Jan 2018 The paper advocates carefully tailoring EGS liberalisation so that it can deliver meaningful trade and development benefits while responding to environmental priorities in Asian developing countries.
by Vicente Yu III | On 01 Jan 2018 This paper provides an overview of the state of the environmental services sector in Asia, by focusing on the most significant segments of infrastructural services namely, water, sanitation and munici...
by Aparna Sawhney | On 01 Jan 2018 This study has shown that while most shrimp farmers are aware of the risks in business, they are not actively adopting the standards.
by A. Enamul Haque | On 29 Dec 2017 This paper explores the policy measures that will best lead to the most positive outcomes as standards diffuse through global value chains.
by Raphael Kaplinsky | On 26 Dec 2017 This paper has been conceived as an exploratory scoping exercise intended to identify and better understand trade-related issues and knowledge gaps, including how various types of trade measures and p...
by International Centre for Development (ICTSD) | On 22 Dec 2017 This paper seeks to support the on-going negotiations by identifying common ground and differences with respect to notifications and transparency, analysing the feasibility of various ideas, and discu...
by Arthur Appleton | On 20 Dec 2017 This paper discusses the practice of energy dual pricing in the broader context of fossil fuel subsidy reform.
by Anna Marhold | On 20 Dec 2017 The report says that Manitoba is a province rich in agricultural lands, where the agriculture sector is a cornerstone for the economy.
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 18 Dec 2017 In water-based transport generally, fuel costs are low and environmental
pollution is lower than in transport by road, rail, or air. The
waterway is naturally available, which has to be ‘trained’, m...
by | On 13 Dec 2017 The report outlines and critically assesses trends in urban planning education across the globe, specifically in countries of the global South, and the extent to which curricula address issues of incl...
by Vanessa Watson | On 07 Dec 2017 This paper narrates about the challenge of meeting energy demand is likely to get more complex, as it is growing to keep pace with the population growth and expanding economy.
by Muhammad Iftikhar | On 01 Dec 2017 This paper proposes a way forward whereby the commerce ministries of India
and Pakistan can address the concerns of Pakistan’s auto sector and create a win-win milieu.
by Vaqar Ahmed | On 29 Nov 2017 This paper examines the effects of the 2008–09 global economic crisis on people’s pro-environmental behaviour and willingness to pay for climate change mitigation. The paper hypothesise that the crisi...
by Artjoms Ivlevs | On 28 Nov 2017 Asia and the Pacific continues to be exposed to climate change impacts. Home to the majority of the world’s poor, the population of the region is particularly vulnerable to those impacts. Unabated war...
by Asian Bank | On 23 Nov 2017 The paper uses a six-year panel of 6,500 students at three international schools in a major city in north China to estimate how fluctuation in ambient PM2.5 over the preceding fortnight impacts daily...
by Haoming Liu | On 20 Nov 2017 On the day when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) finally reported that almost 99% of the proscribed currency notes of ?500 and ?1,000 denomination had returned to the banking system by 30 June 2017, th...
by | On 17 Nov 2017 The study attempts to assess the key determinants of the decision to adopt soil conservation. The study area is Teesta River Watershed, in Darjeeling District in the Eastern Himalayas. In the watershe...
by Chandan Singha | On 07 Nov 2017 About two-thirds of microfinance clients in India are reported to be in Self-Help Groups (SHGs). These mostly women’s groups have been promoted by nationalized banks since the early nineties to improv...
by Jean-Marie Baland | On 06 Nov 2017 Study finds that both groups of IPOs outperforms on first trading day, as average initial market adjusted returns of SOE and non-SOE IPOs are 27.65 percent and 22.53 percent respectively.
by Henna Malik | On 30 Oct 2017 The report shows that the rationality arguments used to establish the existence of
subjective probabilities depend essentially on the identification of acting-as-ifyou-believe and actually believing.
by Asad Zaman | On 26 Oct 2017 The banking sector of Pakistan has witnessed a notable transformation in its structure and business
activities following the implementation of financial sector reforms since the early 1990s. Specific...
by Mahmood ul Hasan Khan | On 09 Oct 2017 The paper says that it will contribute to make monetary policy more effective and thus enhance its impact.
by Sarthak Karki | On 06 Oct 2017 The analysis showed that the relationship of financial literacy of small borrowers was significant with their financial attitude and behavior.
by Ramesh Chaulagain | On 06 Oct 2017 This paper introduces a new dataset of orders passed by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in the insolvency cases under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code or IBC. It builds this dataset to atte...
by Sreyan Chatterjee | On 18 Sep 2017 Growing non-performing assets is a recurrent problem in the Indian banking sector. Over the past two decades, there have been two such episodes when the banking sector was severely impaired by balance...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 18 Sep 2017 This paper tests the bank lending channel against the aggregate demand channel as an explanation for slow credit growth by estimating the determinants of credit and of non- performing assets (NPAs) us...
by Ashima Goyal | On 15 Sep 2017 This paper finds that deviation of rainfall from its normal values and other key variables such as education, employment, assets, and armed conflict affect chronic food poverty.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 05 Sep 2017 Regional integration (RI) is a process by which countries enter into an agreement to upgrade cooperation through common institutions and rules. The objectives of the agreement could range from economi...
by Research and Information System for Developing Countries | On 24 Aug 2017 BRICS is a hot topic today. It is the new “kid” or the next big thing in global governance and in macro economics today. Set up in 2009, in the aftermath of 2008 global financial crisis with four coun...
by Shubha Chacko | On 22 Aug 2017 This study examines the notions of decentralisation and developmentalism, and shows how they have become two of the most significant defining features of South African local government.
by Andrew Siddle | On 11 Aug 2017 This paper details the approaches of other countries when their banking sectors were burdened with unsustainable levels of impaired assets. The paper examines the bad debt situation in India, the circ...
by Jaimini Bhagwati | On 11 Aug 2017 The present paper attempts to explore the macroeconomic implications of the “demonetisation” exercise announced on November 8, 2016, for the Indian economy on three board parameters of growth, distrib...
by Pradymna Rawat | On 09 Aug 2017 In an interview with eSocialSciences, Abhishek Narayan, the founder of citizens group Clean Adyar Initiative, opens up on the importance of community involvement in bringing about environmental change...
by Amrit B L S | On 08 Aug 2017 This paper undertakes an evaluation of the Labour and Environment chapters of the TPP Agreement, with a view to determining India’s stand if the same or similar provisions are proposed in multilateral...
by Anwarul Hoda | On 08 Aug 2017 The study attempts to investigate the factors affecting a firm’s decision to hire contract workers. The information from a specially commissioned survey of manufacturing firms undertaken in 2014 by IC...
by Jaivir Singh | On 08 Aug 2017 This report introduces new thinking and evidence about Positive Peace.
by Institute for Economics and Peace | On 04 Aug 2017 It has been well recognized that a well-developed corporate bond market complements a sound banking system in providing an alternative source of finance to the real sector for its long-term investme...
by Securities Board of India | On 04 Aug 2017 The paper attempts to find out whether the credit risk regulatory capital of Indian banks is commensurate with the default experience associated with ratings assigned by the Indian rating agencies. Th...
by Ajay Kumar Choudhary | On 04 Aug 2017 The report narrates that the Accord provided a framework for a fair and reasonable degree of consistency in the application of capital standards in different countries, on a shared definition of capit...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 03 Aug 2017 Low carbon development has gained policy prominence and is a concern of both environment and development policy globally and in China
and India. This paper discusses the role of China and India as im...
by Shailly Kedia | On 03 Aug 2017 The study explores ground-level realities linked with initiatives on tax administration, construction permits, transparency, compliance with environmental and labour laws and regulations, and inspecti...
by Research National Council of Applied Economic | On 31 Jul 2017 This paper examines the implications of the establishment of the
New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement
(CRA) for the international financial system and for the BRICS coun...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 31 Jul 2017 An analysis of the impact of government borrowing from the scheduled banks on the credit to private
sector in Pakistan, using monthly data from 1998:M6 to 2015:M12. We find that a one percentage
poi...
by Sajjad Zaheer | On 31 Jul 2017 The main objective of the paper is to of add clarity to the debate over the economic effects of regulations like the CPP. It is shown that studies of the same regulation
using similar methodologies c...
by Noah Kaufman | On 28 Jul 2017 The expert paper further estimates significant potential for an overall improvement in balance of trade with increased blending in the context of an expected recovery in global crude oil prices.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 27 Jul 2017 This paper aims at providing an early assessment of the response by firms to this Act. It examines the extent to which the CSR Act has led firms to comply and increase the share of profits being spent...
by Sangeeta Bansal | On 27 Jul 2017 The present paper is an attempt to conduct a valuation of the three most important exhaustible natural resources, viz., natural gas, coal and hard rock, via
the System of Environmental-Economic Accou...
by Mahfuz Kabir | On 27 Jul 2017 The nature and scale of humanitarian crises are changing. The world is becoming increasingly urbanised – currently, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban environments, which will rise t...
by | On 27 Jul 2017 This paper also highlights the need for a coordinated approach to
SDG implementation by demonstrating the case of gender
equality and urban planning.
by Shrimoyee Bhattacharya | On 26 Jul 2017 The report narrates that in Bangladesh, women-owned SMEs have different characteristics when compared with men-owned SMEs and tend to face specific challenges and obstacles.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 25 Jul 2017 This report explores some of the ways forward. It highlights not just the need to inject more money into investments that contribute to sustainable development, but also to attract funds toward them—t...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Jul 2017 This report provides support to the Maldivian government in formulating its high-priority policies by identifying the critical constraints to achieving inclusive growth. The report also provides polic...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jul 2017 This report is an outcome of Phase 3 discussions under the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum Sub-Forum 2, which have focused on making bond market infrastructures in the region more inter-operable through the...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 Jul 2017 The results of this study can be used to strengthen the institutional and statistical capacities of Viet Nam to routinely collect, compile, analyze, and disseminate internationally comparable FSIs tha...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jul 2017 The results of the study indicate that climate change will likely have significant negative impacts on agricultural output in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands.
by M.W. Rosegrant | On 05 Jul 2017 This case study looks at the gender dimensions of two projects that focus on the community development component that advocated community participation, social inclusion, and gender equality in commun...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as underpricing of petroleum products and electricity, tax exemptions, and subsidized credit; examines the potential economic, energy, and en...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as tax breaks for diesel and natural gas, market price support for natural gas for vehicles, and free electricity for low-income consumers as...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This report summarizes findings and policy recommendations for the government's 13th Five-Year Plan.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 With mushrooming of commercial drivers, incomes are falling and expenses are rising. Unable to pay monthly loan instalments, cars are being seized, while contracted employees cannot quit. Will legal p...
by Amrit B L S | On 29 Jun 2017 This study, using an inclusive growth framework, has identified the critical constraints that Fiji needs to address to strengthen investor sentiment even further and achieve inclusive growth.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 27 Jun 2017 The report is an annual review of Asia’s regional economic cooperation and integration. It covers the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank. This issue includes Special Chapter: How Can Sp...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 Jun 2017 This study informs decision makers regarding major climate change risks to development and provides feasible policy recommendations for consideration to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability in...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jun 2017 This report identifies some of Thailand’s critical development constraints and discusses policy measures and economic reforms needed to accelerate economic transformation toward a more modern and serv...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jun 2017 This paper also provides recommendations for addressing new sources of market volatility and other challenges within and outside the framework of the Asian Bond Markets Initiative.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Jun 2017 This report measures the size of associated subsidies on these fossil fuels including direct transfers, tax exemptions, subsidized credit, and losses of state enterprises in India, Indonesia, and Thai...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jun 2017 The paper narrates that the risks are tilted to the downside as tightening US monetary policy may heighten financial volatility, further moderation in the People’s Republic of China could spill over i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jun 2017 This report describes Indonesia’s electrification environment and identifies barriers to achieving universal electricity access. Principles drawn from international best practices such as government c...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jun 2017 This report assesses the extent to which inclusive business models promote women's economic empowerment. Examples come from the inclusive business portfolios of the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-A...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Jun 2017 Myanmar is at a critical point in terms of road safety. In 2014, road-related deaths reached 4,300, which is twice as many as in 2009. Substantial and decisive action is needed, including early fundin...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 31 May 2017 The immediate priority must be to implement policies that will enable MR to retain as much of its current market as is economically justified over the next 5–10 years, while ensuring its finances are...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 31 May 2017 The objective of the paper is to highlight the reforms needed in the tax system to improve the
revenue productivity of the tax system to conform to the vision of accelerating economic growth and
dev...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 26 May 2017 This study highlights the role played by growing female workforce in the positive economic turnaround in Bangladesh. It is now essential to shift workers to more highly productive sectors through stru...
by Asian Bank | On 24 May 2017 An important reason for this dichotomy be |