Publications
Updated: 21 December 2007
Climate Change - ADB Programs: Strengthening Mitigation and Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific
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Information Brochures and Other Publications Publication Date: December 2007
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Find out about ADB's ongoing and emerging climate change mitigation and adaptation program, and how ADB stands ready to play a catalytic role in helping Asia and the Pacific region meet the challenges brought about by climate change.
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ADB's publications increase awareness and understanding of ADB's activities, strategies, and objectives, and introduce the public to what ADB has been doing. We produce annually over 50 current titles on economics, environment, social, and other sectors. Among the recent titles are:
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Poverty Reduction in the New Asia and Pacific: Key Challenges of Inclusive Growth for the Asian Development Bank
This paper summarizes the strategic discussion at the Forum on Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction in the New Asia and the Pacific, 8–9 October 2007, as highlighted in the excellent keynote address by Michael Walton. It argues that growth needs to be inclusive to be sustainable and to be accepted by the population. The Asia and Pacific region, with its rising inequalities, has somewhat lost the inclusive growth path of its past. This gives new opportunities for the Asian Development Bank to bundle knowledge and finance in areas where both governments and markets fail. |
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Rural Development Outcomes and Drivers: An Overview and Some Lessons
Over 3.5 billion people live in the Asia and Pacific region and some 63% of them in rural areas. Although millions of rural people have escaped poverty as a result of economic growth in many Asian countries, a large majority of rural people continue to suffer from persistent poverty. The socioeconomic disparities between rural and urban areas are also widening, creating tremendous pressure on the social and economic fabric of many developing Asian economies. These factors, among many others, tend to highlight the importance of rural development. |
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Economic Analysis Retrospective 2006: Improving the Diagnostic Quality of Economic, Thematic, and Sector Work Underpinning Country Partnership Strategies
This Retro 2006 report is the fifth in an annual series of economic analysis retrospectives prepared by the Economics and Research Department to assess the quality of economic analysis applied throughout Asian Development Bank (ADB) operations. The retrospectives aim to promote the use of rigorous economic analysis by ADB staff in formulating country partnership strategies (CPSs) and in designing projects to ensure quality-at-entry and achieve greater aid effectiveness.
Retro 2006 assesses the quality of economic, thematic, and sector work (ETSW) that underpinned the five CPS papers approved by ADB in 2006. Robust country and sector diagnostics are essential to identify critical constraints to growth and poverty reduction in developing member countries. When ADB’s lending and nonlending operations are designed to remove or relax such critical constraints, the effectiveness of its aid is strengthened. |
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