Disaster events impact Asia and the Pacific more than any other region in the world. In light of current and future climate and disaster risks, there is an urgent need to address the region’s ...

This publication equips data producers and users with practical, step-by-step guidance for integrating gender equality, disability, and social inclusion principles into statistical processes across ...

It uses advanced econometric techniques, including panel-corrected standard errors, feasible generalized least squares, panel quantile regression, and local projections. It finds that economic and ...

The report focuses on three sectors of growing importance: renewable energy, e-learning, and smart cities. It draws on LinkedIn data about jobs and skills in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, ...

Helping students get job-ready skills by expanding access to technical and vocational education in the Lao People's ...

ADB has announced the launch of its High-Level Private Sector Advisory Group on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum ...

Environmental water security is a core concern—it is a foundation on which all other water investments depend. Healthy ...

The brief assesses the types of tax incentives commonly used in the region and explores their advantages and disadvantages. It draws on country-specific evidence and examines other factors that ...

ADB’s business outreach team will travel to Europe, including Zurich, to build capacity of Swiss consultants, contractors, and suppliers in pursuing ADB’s business opportunities, enhance competition ...

Sri Lanka saw an increase in the share of renewable energy (RE) in the electricity mix, when in 2014, the country met its target of generating at least 10 percent of its electricity using renewable ...

This report highlights the benefits of issuing blue bonds, details eligible project categories, and explains the process of issuing the instruments as appetite grows for ocean-themed debt that can ...

Typhoons, floods, and other weather-related shocks can inflict suffering on local populations and create life-threatening conditions for the poor. Yet, natural disasters also present a development ...