Bank Bank: 1056 books
Development Asia—Profits and Poverty
April–June 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The combined budgets of the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and every other development organization in the world make up just a drop of the economic fuel needed to power billions of people into greater prosperity. Those who work in development have long known that the private sector must...
Global Financial Development Report 2014
Financial Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Financial inclusion has become a major subject of interest among policymakers, researchers, and other financial sector stakeholders. Many countries, for example, have recently adopted explicit financial inclusion strategies with targets for financial inclusion. The interest reflects an increased recognition...
ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard Country Reports and Assessments 2015
Joint Initiative of the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum and the Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Good corporate governance practices reduce vulnerability to financial crises, reinforce property rights, reduce the cost of capital, and lead to greater capital market development. In this fourth edition of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Corporate Governance initiative of the Asian...
How Inclusive is Inclusive Business for Women?
Examples from Asia and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Inclusive businesses are commercially viable business models that provide in-scale innovative and systemic solutions to problems relevant to the lives of low-income people. Inclusive business companies often involve women in their value chain and provide specific services that help low-income women....
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
The World Bank's Forests Strategy, adopted in October 2002, charts a path for the Bank's proactive engagement in the sector to help attain the goal of poverty reduction without jeopardizing the environmental values intrinsic to sustainability. This strategy replaces the Bank's 1991 Forestry Strategy,...
Global Financial Development Report 2017/2018
Bankers without Borders
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Successful international integration has underpinned most experiences of rapid growth, shared prosperity, and reduced poverty. Perhaps no sector of the economy better illustrates the potential benefits--but also the perils--of deeper integration than banking. International banking may contribute to...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
This year's edition of International Debt Statistics, successor to Global Development Finance and World Debt Tables, and the fourth in the series, is designed to respond to user demand for timely, comprehensive data on trends in external debt in low- and middle-income countries. It also provides summary...
Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016
Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016, produced by the World Bank Group in partnership with the International Monetary Fund, comes at an inflection point in both the setting of global development goals and the demographic trends affecting those goals. This year marks the end of the Millennium Development...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Drawing on the Asian Development Bank's experience installing the rooftop solar photovoltaic system at its headquarters, the Handbook for Rooftop Solar Development in Asia hopes to demystify the process of developing solar photovoltaic projects in urban areas. The handbook provides detailed descriptions...
Public-Private Partnership Operational Plan 2012-2020
Realizing the Vision for Strategy 2020: The Transformational Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Asian Development Bank Operations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Public-Private Partnership Operational Plan 2012-2020 provides a consistent analytical and operational framework for scaling up public-private partnerships (PPPs) in support of Strategy 2020. The PPP operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are based on four pillars: (i) advocacy and capacity...
Progress Report on Establishing a Regional Settlement Intermediary and Next Steps
Implementing Central Securities Depository-Real-Time Gross Settlement Linkages in ASEAN+3
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This progress report developed by the Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum (CSIF), composed of the central banks and central securities depositories in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea---collectively known...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Civil society organizations, including nongovernment organizations (NGOs), are important stakeholders of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This report is a compilation of ADB's engagement with civil society organizations, including NGOs, at the policy and strategy, country and regional programing,...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
This evaluation assesses the extend to which World Bank-financed training builds the capacity of target institutions and organizations to better achieve their development goals, and identifies the training management processes that contribute to positive results.
Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017
From World Development Indicators
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017 uses maps, charts and analysis to illustrate, trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas primarily draws on World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank's compilation of internationally...