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  • The Enabling Environment for Disaster Risk Financing in Nepal
    Asian Development Bank
    This country diagnostic assessment seeks to strengthen financial preparedness for disasters in Nepal, focusing on insurance and other risk transfer instruments.It explores the current application of disaster risk financing solutions by the government, businesses, and individual households; related demand and supply constraints; and opportunities for improvement. The assessment ...
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    31,73 €

  • Aid for Trade in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explores how international trade is promoting economic empowerment through the increased participation of women and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises.It highlights the roles of services and digital connectivity in facilitating diversification and inclusive economic transformation. The report examines recent trends in aid for trade in Asia and the Pacif...
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    35,42 €

  • Solar District Heating in the People’s Republic of China
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication discusses the development potential of solar district heating in the People’s Republic of China.It explores the significant potential of solar district heating to accelerate the integration of renewable energy into heating systems in the PRC. This will be important in promoting low-carbon cities and reducing urban air pollution. The study highlights that solar ...
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    28,68 €

  • Pacific Economic Monitor - July 2019
    Asian Development Bank
    The Pacific’s economic outlook remains solid despite the global slowdown. While social development gains in the region have been steady, some big challenges remain.This issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor begins with an overview of international and regional economic developments.It features 13 articles and policy briefs that explore socioeconomic development in the Pacific, ...
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    26,85 €

  • The Social Protection Indicator for the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides updates on social protection indicators for 13 Pacific developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank.It presents an analysis of 2015 data on social protection programs, particularly the substantial progress in expenditure and benefit size between 2009 and 2015. Yet, spending favored the nonpoor over the poor, and the gap in spending on men ...
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    26,96 €

  • The Social Protection Indicator for Asia
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides updates on Social Protection Indicators of 24 countries in Asia, with an analysis of 2015 data on social protection programs.It shows progress in expenditure, primarily driven by social insurance and coverage between 2009 and 2015. Spending on women has improved in several countries, yet others continued to favor the nonpoor over the poor, and men over...
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    27,02 €

  • Enhanced Cooperation and Integration between Indonesia and Timor-Leste
    Asian Development Bank
    This report explores the challenges and opportunities for enhancing cross-border cooperation and integration between Indonesia and Timor-Leste.This report recommends how Indonesia and Timor-Leste can enhance cross-border cooperation and integration to help boost economic growth and reduce poverty. It focuses on opportunities in the tourism and livestock sectors and reviews tran...
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    58,39 €

  • Improving Education, Skills, and Employment in Tourism
    Asian Development Bank
    This report measures the skills gap among tourism industry workers and the resulting opportunity costs along the Almaty–Bishkek Economic Corridor in Central Asia.The skills gap analysis identifies an annual lack of about 8,500 trained professionals in the tourism industry along the region which is causing opportunity costs of more than $30 million per year. The Almaty–Bishkek E...
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    27,21 €

  • Asia Bond Monitor - June 2019
    Asian Development Bank
    This issue of the Asia Bond Monitor features a special chapter on housing bond markets, including insights on how they can be further developed in the region.Local currency bond markets in emerging East Asia continued to expand over the first quarter of 2019 despite trade conflicts and moderating global growth.At the end of March, there were $15 trillion in local currency bonds...
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    31,80 €

  • Line of Sight
    Asian Development Bank
    This report analyzes the complexities of health financing in Papua New Guinea with a focus on resource allocation, use, and accountability.It explores information gaps and transparency issues that undermine health service delivery and outcomes. Recommendations in this report aim to improve health sector governance and capacity, which will ultimately contribute to a more robust ...
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    28,27 €

  • Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Assets
    Asian Development Bank
    This report offers an analytical framework that allows for more systemic assessments of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and its applications.It examines the evolution and typology of the emergent technology, its existing and projected applications, and regulatory and policy issues that they entail. This report highlights the trends, concerns, and potential opportunities of ...
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    28,52 €

  • School Education in Pakistan
    Asian Development Bank
    This assessment describes issues facing the school education system in Pakistan, highlights the challenges, and suggests some possible directions for reform—with a focus on two provinces: Sindh and Punjab.While average years of schooling in Pakistan have increased along with life expectancy and per capita income, inequality remains high and, by other education measures, the rec...
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    33,53 €

  • Common Understanding on International Standards and Gateways for Central Securities Depository and Real-Time Gross Settlement (CSD-RTGS) Linkages
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides an overview of central securities depository and real-time gross settlement linkages in the ASEAN+3 region.It 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. It aims to build a common understanding among CSIF members about...
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    32,54 €

  • Good Practices for Developing a Local Currency Bond Market
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides a comprehensive picture of how to foster local currency bond markets in ASEAN+3.Local currency bond markets in ASEAN+3 play an important role in diversifying financial intermediary channels and mitigating the impacts of financial crises. They also have the potential to help mobilize developing Asia’s significant savings to meet the region’s enormous in...
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    45,21 €

  • Transforming Kolkata
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explores the views of stakeholders in the two decades of partnership between ADB and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in India.ADB supported Kolkata’s integrated planning and phased investments of over $1 billion towards building resilience, inclusiveness, and improved and sustainable urban services. Essential lessons provided in this publication may be useful...
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    31,83 €

  • Pacific Economic Monitor
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides an update of developments in Pacific economies and explores topical policy issues to date.The 10th edition features policy briefs focusing on the effects of climate change, impacts of natural hazards, income and purchasing power, service delivery, economic empowerment of women, and labor markets in the region. ...
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    25,71 €

  • Leveraging Trade for Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides insights on how trade can be leveraged to enhance economic opportunities for women in the Pacific.It includes an analysis of how gender mainstreaming in Aid for Trade programs could catalyze greater donor support to help the region benefit from gender-equitable and truly inclusive growth. In the Pacific, the labor force participation gap between men an...
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    30,41 €

  • Financing Affordable Housing in Yangon
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides analysis and recommendations to support the Yangon Region Government to implement its affordable housing agenda and related policies.Myanmar’s housing sector is struggling to cope with rapid urbanization, internal migration, and new demand arising from recent economic growth. These challenges are most apparent in the Yangon Region, where estimates sugg...
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    31,97 €

  • Modernizing Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in CAREC
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication assesses the plant health, animal health, and food safety measures of member countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program.The assessment covers laws and procedures governing the oversight and application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures, laboratory infrastructure, and border services management. CAREC members include Afghani...
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    33,86 €

  • Potential Exports and Nontariff Barriers to Trade
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explores how Nepal could boost its exports by addressing nontariff barriers to trade.It focuses on sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade, and identifies export products that have potential for an increased market share in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka. It also examines the regulatory environment and demonstrate...
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    59,87 €

  • Public-Private Partnership Monitor (Second Edition)
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication presents information on the status of the public–private partnership (PPP) environment in 12 ADB member countries.The countries covered include Bangladesh, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the People’s Republic of China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam. About 200 quantitative and qualitative indicators were a...
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    139,00 €

  • 2018 Development Effectiveness Review
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication examines the performance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in achieving the goals of Strategy 2020, one of the institution’s long-term planning documents.In line with recent development progress in Asia and the Pacific, ADB’s development effectiveness is assessed and areas where ADB’s performance needs to be strengthened are identified. ...
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    48,76 €

  • Use of Remote Sensing to Estimate Paddy Area and Production
    Asian Development Bank
    This handbook explains how to use remote sensing technology to estimate rice crop area and production to support food security policymaking in Asia and the Pacific.A substantial portion of the world’s rice is produced and consumed in Asia and the Pacific. As much of the region’s population depends on rice farming, timely and good quality agricultural estimates and forecasts are...
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    54,02 €

  • Impact Evaluation of Energy Interventions
    Asian Development Bank
    This report aims to support impact evaluation in the energy sector by assessing what has been produced against what might be possible.It reviews 85 impact evaluations of energy interventions in developing countries, summarizes findings on outcomes, identifies evidence gaps, and proposes ways forward. It notes that impact evaluation has so far focused on rural electrification an...
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    28,10 €

  • Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2019
    Asian Development Bank
    Growth in developing Asia is projected to soften to 5.7% in 2019 and 5.6% in 2020. Excluding Asia’s high-income newly industrialized economies, growth is expected to slip from 6.4% in 2018 to 6.2% in 2019 and 6.1% in 2020.As oil prices rose and Asian currencies depreciated, inflation edged up last year but remained low by historical standards. In light of stable commodity price...
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    70,79 €

  • Potential Exports and Nontariff Barriers to Trade
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication identifies how Sri Lanka can address nontariff barriers in the area of sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade. It examined Sri Lankan export products which have the potential to increase their market share in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, and Nepal. Options and opportunities to deal with identified nontariff barriers are cons...
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    49,17 €

  • Gender Equality Results Case Study
    Asian Development Bank
    This case study examines the gender aspects of the Infrastructure Development Investment Program for Tourism in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab.The program has contributed to economic growth, and provides evidence of the capacity of gender-responsive tourism development to promote community participation in tourism and enhance the status of women. This report looks at results in th...
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    24,18 €

  • Gender Equality Results Case Study
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication presents stories that showcase how improved connectivity has transformed lives—especially of women and girls—in rural communities of India.It presents the contributions of the Asian Development Bank’s Rural Connectivity Investment Program (RCIP) in five states: Assam, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and West Bengal. Enhanced connectivity has improved the ...
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    19,94 €

  • Potential Exports and Nontariff Barriers to Trade
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication identifies export products from Maldives that are affected by sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade. The trade patterns of Maldives within South Asia, particularly with regard to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, were examined and a gap analysis was conducted on relevant legal structures, institutional frameworks, an...
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    29,83 €

  • Asia Bond Monitor - March 2019
    Asian Development Bank
    The quarterly Asia Bond Monitor reviews developments in emerging East Asian local currency bond markets. The report discusses key trends in the region’s bond market and the outlook, risks, and policy options. It covers the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the People’s Republic of China; Hong Kong, China; and the Republic of Korea. ...
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    26,37 €