Bank Bank: 1056 books
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) promotes the economic growth and social development of its developing member countries by means of a wide range of activities and initiatives. ADB's Annual Financial Profile provides the facts and figures behind ADB's lending activities and describes ADB as a borrower.
Facilitating Safe Labor Migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Issues, Challenges, and Forward-Looking Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program has adopted a multisector approach to economic corridor development, requiring multisector investments, increased inter-sector coordination, and enhanced knowledge platform. An area of concern is facilitating safe labor migration. This...
Consultation Phase of the ADB Accountability Mechanism
Office of the Special Project Facilitator Annual Report 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The Office of the Special Project Facilitator (OSPF) is responsible for the Consultation Phase of the Accountability Mechanism of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). OSPF’s core function is to facilitate problem solving concerning ADB-assisted projects and programs using consensus-based methods, seeking...
Using Evidence to Inform Policy
Report of Impact and Policy Conference: Evidence in Governance, Financial Inclusion, and Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
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. Over 200 scholars, practitioners and policy makers...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This collection of images illustrates the progress and challenges of 20 years of work in the Greater Mekong Subregion. It makes no attempt to focus solely on the work of the Asian Development Bank, or any one partner. It is a celebration of the work of everyone who has labored to make the Greater Mekong Subregion into what it is today
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Education is a concern for all, including students, parents, communities, employers, societies, and governments. All stakeholders have a role in providing education services. In this context, the operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the education sector pursue new and innovative models...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This report synthesizes the results of country and sector studies on the economic costs and benefits of unilateral and regional actions on climate change in the Asian Development Bank's six South Asia developing members, namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The study...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
This handbook is a compilation of the disbursement policies, guidelines, procedures, and practices of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Aid for Trade in Asia and the Pacific
Driving Private Sector Participation in Global Value Chains
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The formation of a Regional Technical Group (RTG) on Aid for Trade for Asia and the Pacific was a key recommendation to emerge from the Aid for Trade Regional Review Meeting at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila in 2007 and the Global Aid for Trade Review Meetings at the World...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Since the inception of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has participated in the preparation of 15 investment plans covering the two main CIF funds, the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF). The SCF comprises three separate programs—the...
Satisfying Hidden Hunger
Addressing Micronutrient Deficiencies in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Disease caused by major micronutrient deficiencies posed a growing and urgent problem for the newly emerging countries of Central Asia in the 1990s. The Asian Development Bank responded with a regional food fortification initiative---the first major initiative using public–private partnerships to...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This publication describes further progress of ongoing and recently undertaken initiatives for the Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI). It highlights the issues and many of the encouraging outcomes resulting from earlier efforts. It also explores issues expected to emerge in the future,...
Pathways for Peace
Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Violent conflicts today are complex and increasingly protracted, involving more nonstate groups and regional and international actors. It is estimated that by 2030—the horizon set by the international community for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals—more than half of the world’s poor...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
World Development Indicators 2015 World Development Indicators 2015 provides a compilation of relevant, highquality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers,...