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This report moves beyond asset and production losses and focuses instead on how natural disasters affect people’s well-being. Here, natural disaster risk and losses are measured...

This paper focuses on the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The Fourth Industrial Revolution refers to a set of...

The ASM reviews various aspects of SME finance within different countries. These aspects include the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. The main objectives of...

This energy sector assessment, strategy, and road map for Viet Nam documents the current assessment of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the strategic investment priorities...

To achieve the steady growth envisaged in this report, policy makers in developing Asia need to be vigilant of potential risks. Risks to Asia’s growth prospects could come from...

Objective 1: Improved vulnerable groups’ and poor households’ access to and/or control of productive natural resources, financial and support services, and to social protection...

This publication on urban development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)—a first of its kind—reflects recognition of the greater potential roles of urban development,...

This report shows that the low labor force participation of women is intimately related to how they allocate time between market and nonmarket activities. Indeed, in deciding...

This is the report of Mekong project 4 on water governance: Challenge Program for Water and Food Mekong. The analysis report explored the key challenges and weaknesses in...

The demand for higher education continues to grow as universities compete globally to attract students. But are students opting for private or public institutions? To what...

The demand for higher education continues to grow as universities compete globally to attract students. But are students opting for private or public institutions? To what...

Despite the steady rise in literacy rates over the past 50 years, there are still 750 million illiterate adults around the world, most of whom are women. These numbers produced...

The World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE) brings together data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), national household...

Despite considerable advances in disaster risk management (DRM) understanding and know-how over the past few decades, there has been no evidence of a long-term decline in loss...

Eco-compensation in the PRC is mainly a public mechanism to promote environmental protection and restoration, including through the payment for ecological services. It is a...

This publication is authored by a multidisciplinary technical assistance team of experts. It shares solutions emerging from the GrEEEn Cities Initiative of the Asian Development...

Globalization and technology deepen value chains and production networks to the great benefit of producers and consumers—both domestic and foreign. But it also means that, above...

While ADB’s renewable energy investments were slightly under a billion dollars in 2015, the overall renewable energy market is healthier than ever. Bloomberg New Energy Finance,...

This energy sector assessment, strategy, and roadmap for Viet Nam documents the current assessment of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the strategic investment priorities...

The frequency and magnitude of natural disasters are increasing in most regions across the world with water-related disasters being the most common and recurrent. The economic...