Catálogo de libros: asian development bank

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  • Toward Mature Digital Education Ecosystems
    Asian Development Bank
    Introducing a data-driven framework aimed at closing the digital education gap, this report assesses 10 developing member countries and illuminates how a multi-stakeholder, systemic approach-including engagement with the private sector-can enhance the delivery of digital education.Utilizing five overarching categories of the framework-infrastructure, government policy, educator...
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    37,17 €

  • Measuring Progress on Women’s Financial Inclusion and Entrepreneurship in the Philippines
    Asian Development Bank
    This report assesses the hurdles Philippine micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) face to access the financial services they need to grow and outlines how to promote an entrepreneurial ecosystem that enables women-owned MSMEs to thrive.Drawing on the results of a survey of MSMEs, which account for 63 percent of total employment in the Philippines, it highlights why...
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    41,93 €

  • Build4Skills
    Asian Development Bank
    This handbook shows how the Build4Skills program integrates traineeships into ADB-backed infrastructure construction projects in Asia and the Pacific to provide cost-efficient training that boosts employability and makes projects more inclusive. Designed as a practical step-by-step guide, it includes templates that layout trainee requirements. It sets out how to integrate Build...
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    36,99 €

  • Building Greener, Resilient Transport Infrastructure
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides a case study of how digital tools can help optimize road design to strengthen climate resilience, safety, and efficient resource use.It explains how virtual models can be used to simulate and analyze the effects of potential design choices and future scenarios such as climatic conditions. It shows how greater use of data and digital solutions can help ...
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    33,71 €

  • Economic Corridor Development
    Asian Development Bank
    This guidance note shares insights on economic corridor development as an area-based approach and explores how to facilitate these multisector programs. It will be relevant to government officials, development partners, the private sector, and academia in formulating, implementing, and assessing economic corridors. ...
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    35,51 €

  • Asia Bond Monitor - September 2023
    Asian Development Bank
    This edition shows how a modest improvement in economic fundamentals has buoyed East Asia’s local currency bond (LCY) markets, but potential renewed increases in inflation and further interest rate hikes could pose risks for the region’s borrowers.Covering the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, China, and the Republic of K...
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    34,03 €

  • Incorporating Climate Resilience in Urban Planning and Policy Making
    Asian Development Bank
    Providing high-level climate risk assessments for cities in Armenia, Georgia, and Uzbekistan, this report is designed to mainstream mitigation and adaptation into urban planning to help ensure climate resilient growth. For each country, it harnesses climate data, models, and projections. It offers a range of scenarios, assesses potential risks to key infrastructure, and sets ou...
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    41,85 €

  • Recent Central Bank Digital Currency Developments in Asia and Their Implications
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication analyzes the evolution of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) in Asia and the Pacific, assesses their potential risks and technical challenges, and shows their potential to improve cross-border payments and financial inclusion.Ahead of the launch of any large-scale Asian CBDC, it details various models and explores how Cambodia, the People’s Republic of Chin...
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    37,24 €

  • Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2023
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides updated statistics on a comprehensive set of economic, financial, social, and environmental measures as well as select indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report covers the 49 regional members of ADB. It discusses trends in development progress and the challenges to achieving inclusive and sustainable economic growth across Asi...
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    78,46 €

  • Strategy 2030 Energy Sector Directional Guide
    Asian Development Bank
    This Energy Sector Directional Guide provides the strategic direction of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the energy sector.This sector guide describes the context and rationale that will guide ADB’s agenda in supporting developing member countries (DMCs) with financing, knowledge, convening ability, and technical assistance (TA) to ensure improved coherence, relevance, eff...
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    29,50 €

  • Developing Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Strategies for Sector Agencies in South Asia
    Asian Development Bank
    This guidance note outlines how sector agencies in South Asia can develop gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) strategies, highlights their key elements, and shows how to effectively integrate them into projects and policies.Explaining how GESI strategies can help sector agencies tackle the barriers women and vulnerable groups face, it offers tips on how to adopt partici...
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    23,52 €

  • Pacific Economic Monitor - August 2023
    Asian Development Bank
    Pacific economies are bouncing back as tourism recovers and infrastructure projects resume, but inflationary pressures and vulnerability to natural hazards remain downside risks.This edition of the Pacific Economic Monitor tracks the rebound of some tourism-dependent economies; explores new opportunities from agriculture, digitalization, and fisheries; and analyzes ways to miti...
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    28,02 €

  • Climate Finance Landscape of Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This report assesses climate finance in Asia and the Pacific and analyzes how it can be harnessed by developing member countries to expand climate action and spur low-carbon, resilient growth. Designed to help governments and development partners identify and address barriers, it offers a subregional breakdown and underscores the need for equitable access to funds to help count...
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    37,65 €

  • Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Game Changers in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    Analyzing the potential of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to secure a low-carbon environment for Asia and the Pacific, this Asian Development Bank (ADB) compendium features 11 CCUS technologies and tools.As ADB strives to facilitate this low-carbon future for the region within the next half of this century, the compendium explores how CCUS can enhance sustainab...
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    29,58 €

  • Reimagine Tech-Inclusive Education
    Asian Development Bank
    As fast-evolving education technology (EdTech) revolutionizes learning, this report examines the evidence for effective digital learning, the key interventions and innovations in education technology, and how best to implement effective digital transformation initiatives in the education sector.Outlining how rapid technological advances are disrupting the employment landscape a...
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    34,52 €

  • Regional Well-Being Across Kazakhstan
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication examines well-being across Kazakhstan’s regions. It suggests how a deeper understanding of regional differences can help policymakers tailor interventions and promote more equitable development. The publication shares findings from a study that used data from a 2022 survey of well-being across Kazakhstan to create two indices. One index measures people’s subjec...
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    31,15 €

  • Gateway Framework
    Asian Development Bank
    For tackling complex global challenges, this publication advises how a Gateway Process (GP) can help the Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries channel scarce public resources into viable, sustainable, efficient infrastructure investments.Supporting ministries of finance and related agencies, the publication explains how GPs can enhance the preparation, procuremen...
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    25,95 €

  • 2021 Energy Policy of the Asian Development Bank
    Asian Development Bank
    The new Asian Development Bank (ADB) Energy Policy, approved in October 2021, guides ADB’s energy sector operations to support energy access improvement and low-carbon transition in Asia and the Pacific.It is consistent with ADB’s Strategy 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris Agreement on climate change and anchored on five principles: (i) securing energy for ...
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    28,10 €

  • Green Finance for Asian State-Owned Enterprises
    Asian Development Bank
    This report reveals how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Asia’s emerging economies can play a key role in helping to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, by using green bonds to upgrade their economic activities from polluting to green. The report explores how SOEs can develop and deploy sustainable financial instruments, in particular green bonds, to help finance thei...
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    27,94 €

  • Addressing Menstrual Health in Urban, Water, and Sanitation Interventions in the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This guide provides practical tips for addressing menstrual health as part of urban development, water, and sanitation work in the Pacific to promote gender equality and well-being.It outlines the need to improve education about menstruation, eliminate stigma and discrimination, and boost access to sanitation facilities to support inclusive development and economic growth. It i...
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    29,42 €

  • Asia Bond Monitor - June 2023
    Asian Development Bank
    This edition presents recent developments in emerging East Asian local currency bond markets and features a special section about how increased climate risk awareness can influence investors’ trading decisions.Bond yields in emerging East Asia declined from March to May amid easing inflationary pressures in the region and slower monetary tightening in the United States. The reg...
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    29,50 €

  • Disaster Recovery Planning
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication outlines why post-disaster needs assessments (PDNA) should provide comprehensive details of the economic and social impacts of disasters on countries to swiftly mobilize resources and support resilient recovery.Using a theoretical case study highlighting the aftermath of an earthquake and subsequent flooding, the publication shows how the cost to property, infr...
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    28,01 €

  • Bangladesh Economic Corridor Development Highlights
    Asian Development Bank
    As Bangladesh builds on a decade of strong economic growth, this executive summary explains why creating an economic corridor can drive the massive structural transformation it needs to ensure its development is sustainable and equitable.Detailing the reasons behind its growth, it explains how a Bangladesh Economic Corridor (BEC) would benefit its northeast and southwest region...
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    28,01 €

  • Narrowing the Development Gap
    Asian Development Bank
    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).Building on a previous study released in 2014, it assesses 39 indicators that consider dimensions such as overall human development, gender equality, climate change, and living conditions. The report intends to help...
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    30,90 €

  • Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific Region
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication and accompanying summary materials highlight key messages from current research and data on women’s economic empowerment in Pacific island countries. The analysis focuses on entrepreneurship and on micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises owned by women. Drawing on over 200 published papers and studies and 11 quantitative datasets, it looks at what fosters an...
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    36,00 €

  • Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution through Skills Development in High-Growth Industries in Central and West Asia - Azerbaijan
    Asian Development Bank
    This report explains how Azerbaijan’s fast-growing agro-processing, transportation, and storage industries can benefit from the adoption of digital technologies and outlines how to train the skilled workforce it needs for the new economy. Part of a wider Central and West Asia report on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), this report explains how greater digitalization will ...
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    35,84 €

  • Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution through Skills Development in High-Growth Industries in Central and West Asia - Insights from Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan
    Asian Development Bank
    This report explains how the rapid adoption of digital technology in Central and West Asia can help unlock growth and shows why economies need to invest in training to build the skilled labor force needed for the jobs of the future. Focusing on Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, the report outlines how the pandemic sped up use of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technology...
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    34,36 €

  • Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution through Skills Development in High-Growth Industries in Central and West Asia - Uzbekistan
    Asian Development Bank
    This report analyzes how Uzbekistan’s key textile, garment, and construction sectors will be impacted by its adoption of digital technologies and shows how better training can help offset potential job losses and boost economic growth. Part of a wider Central and West Asia report on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), this report outlines recommendations for Uzbekistan incl...
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    36,00 €

  • Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution through Skills Development in High-Growth Industries in Central and West Asia - Pakistan
    Asian Development Bank
    This report shows how embracing digitalization can boost jobs in Pakistan’s textile, garment, and information technology-business process outsourcing sectors and explains why policies should ensure the benefits are equitably distributed. Part of a wider Central and West Asia report on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), this report focuses on Pakistan’s Punjab province wher...
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    35,93 €

  • The Developer’s Guide to Planning and Designing Logistics Centers in CAREC Countries
    Asian Development Bank
    This guide provides advice on setting up logistics centers in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) member countries to support trade.A logistics center is a complex specifically designed to accommodate warehouses, transport facilities, and associated services. This guide examines how to design, establish, and operate such centers, and what policies can support the...
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    32,62 €