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Methodology for Estimating Carbon Footprint of Road Projects
Case Study: India
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Carbon footprint is a tool commonly used to describe the total amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions for which an individual or organization is responsible. ADB's South Asia Department (SARD) carried out this study to explore possible approaches and methods to calculate the carbon...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
”Carbon intensity” is the traditional measure of an economy’s carbon performance. However, it is incapable of capturing the multidimensional features of an economy’s carbon performance, particularly when increased emissions have causes other than poor emitting technology, such as changes in...
Tobacco Taxes
A Win-Win Measure for Fiscal Space and Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This study analyzes the potential fiscal, health, and poverty impacts of increasing cigarette taxes in five countries---the People's Republic of China, India, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. For each of these countries, increasing taxes on cigarettes would result in substantially fewer long-term...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This publication examines the problems and issues of urban transport in relation to climate change in the People's Republic of China. It reviews international and local best practices for addressing such challenges. It also identifies policies, strategies, and measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions...
Asian Development Outlook Supplement
July 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The Asian Development Outlook is ADB's main economic forecasting product. It is published each April with an Update published in September and brief Supplements published in July and December.
Innovative Strategies in Higher Education for Accelerated Human Resource Development in South Asia
Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This publication is part of a series of six country reports on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Each report presents current arrangements and initiatives in the respective country’s skills development strategies. These...
Toward Mainstreaming and Sustaining Community-Driven Development in Indonesia
Understanding Local Initiatives and the Transition from the National Rural Community Empowerment Program to the Village Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Indonesia has adopted community-driven development as a major strategy for poverty reduction, and replicated the approach nationwide through a number of programs. Over the past few years, the country has formulated a road map for sustaining the systems, procedures, and benefits of community-driven...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Reducing the burden of poor maternal, neonatal, and child health ill-health requires improvements in both the supply and use of effective maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) services. The financial costs of treatment are known globally to be a major barrier to accessing essential care, potentially...
Food Security and Poverty in Asia and the Pacific
Key Challenges and Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Ensuring a secure supply of food is essential, given the world's (and especially Asia's) growing population, high and volatile food prices, increasingly scarce resources, and changing environment. This publication discusses the drivers behind food insecurity in Asia and points to ways to mitigate it.
Least Developed Sucos
Timor-Leste
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Timor-Leste has committed to creating fair and inclusive opportunity. To assist the pursuit of this goal, the paper assesses the distribution of opportunity in the sucos (i.e., village) level. This publication identifies the least developed sucos that mostly need extra support.
Human Capital Development in the People's Republic of China and India
Achievements, Prospects, and Policy Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This report was prepared with the primary objective of drawing insights on how Asian economic giants India and the People's Republic of China leveraged education and skills development to advance economic growth. The analysis presented similarities and differences in human capital development strategies...
A Region at Risk
The Human Dimensions of Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Asia and the Pacific continues to be exposed to climate change impacts. Home to the majority of the world's poor, the population of the region is particularly vulnerable to those impacts. Unabated warming could largely diminish previous achievements of economic development and improvements, putting...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Grid-level energy storage is likely to dominate the conversation in the power industry in the coming years, just like renewable energy did in the past 2 decades. This report targets investors, developers, utility planners, power sector policy makers, and readers who wish to understand the role energy...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
This publication is an initiative of the Government of Papua New Guinea that provides step-by-step guidance on how to rehabilitate mangroves. It aims to help address the impacts of climate change, particularly the coastal flooding prevalent in Papua New Guinea. It is a resource for the planting of...