Asian Development Bank imprint: 965 books
Mainstreaming Gender into Climate Mitigation Activities
Guidelines for Policy Makers and Proposal Developers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Actively engaging women in climate mitigation activities can yield multiple benefits, including improved jobs, better livelihoods, and more equitable revenue flows. Efforts are moving forward to design climate funding mechanisms to help capture these benefits, but policy makers and other stakeholders...
South Asia Pension Forum
Fostering Inclusive and Sustainable Pension Systems in the Region
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Income insecurity in old age is likely to be one key cause of increased poverty in South Asia, and setting up systems to avert this crisis should be a central public policy goal of each country. Several countries in the region are therefore beginning to evaluate a range of policy options for pension...
Indonesia
Enhancing Productivity through Quality Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The book focuses on Indonesia's most pressing labor market challenges and associated policy options to achieve higher and more inclusive economic growth. The challenges consist of creating jobs for and the skills in a youthful and increasingly better educated workforce, and raising the productivity...
An Eco-Compensation Policy Framework for the People's Republic of China
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Economic growth has multiplied the environmental challenges faced by the People's Republic of China but has also created opportunities, by increasing available funding for environmental management and conservation. At the nexus of these countervailing trends, policy makers have been experimenting...
by Michael G. Plummer, David Cheong, Shintaro Hamanaka
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
This publication displays the menu for choice of available methods to evaluate the impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). It caters mainly to policy makers from developing countries and aims to equip them with some economic knowledge and techniques that will enable them to conduct their own economic...
by Arsenio M. Balisacan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anecdotal evidence permeates accounts on the impact of the global economic crisis on Philippine poverty. This study systematically assesses the evidence and recent data. It adopts a somewhat eclectic approach as applying regression and decomposition techniques to trace the impact of the global economic...
by Rudolf Frauendorfer, Roland Liemberger
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Improving the efficiency of water utilities and reducing water losses are becoming top priorities in Asia, with its often-limited water resources and rapidly increasing urban population. This publication provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject matter, highlights the complexity of managing...
by Jouko Sarvi, Hitendra Pillay
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Higher education institutions in Asia and the Pacific, modeled on industrial age thinking that demands excellence in routinized capacities, lack the ability to innovate and create new knowledge enterprises. The transition to a knowledge economy is affecting the purpose, content, pedagogy, and methodologies...
Public-Private Partnerships in Education
Lessons Learned from the Punjab Education Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Impoverished children living in the remote rural areas and urban slums of Pakistan are not well served by the country's struggling public school system. To provide an alternative, the provincial government of Punjab revitalized the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF), which works with private schools...
Tax Reforms toward Fiscal Consolidation
Policy Options for the Government of the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This policy note assesses tax administration measures and tax rate adjustments, two options for the Philippines' fiscal consolidation in terms of their efficiency for revenue mobilization and impacts on tax equity. Its key findings are: 1) a policy mix of a higher value-added tax and a lower corporate...
The Aftermath of Structural Pension Reform
Managing Legacy Costs of Defined Benefit Pensions in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
India's civil service retirement benefit system, based on a defined benefit scheme, imposed an annual expenditure of over $30 billion on the central and state governments. In an effort to truncate the unfunded scheme, which covers 30 million central and state government employees, the Government of...
Shadow Education
Private Supplementary Tutoring and Its Implications for Policy Makers in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In all parts of Asia, households devote considerable expenditures to private supplementary tutoring. This tutoring may contribute to students' achievement, but it also maintains and exacerbates social inequalities, diverts resources from other uses, and can contribute to inefficiencies in education...
by Giovanni Capannelli, Ravi Kanbur
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
This study explores prospects for inclusive growth in the Central Asia and the South Caucasus region and highlights the central role played by the creation of good jobs. The study reviews economic performance in the region and discusses prospects through 2030, introducing two growth scenarios related...
The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization
Issues in Theory and Challenges in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This publication analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization and the resultant issues and challenges that countries face in practice. It traces the evolution of fiscal decentralization as a significant and consequential global reform that has made subnational governments' key public sector actors...