Publications

Our People Strategy defines the principles ADB will follow to recruit, retain, and develop staff and managers and to improve its workplace environment.

ADB's approach to assisting the Pacific (The Pacific Approach) addresses challenges and opportunities common to ADB's Pacific developing member countries, and seeks to identify where and how regional approaches and common guidelines can be used to improve the effectiveness of development assistance.

The development effectiveness briefs present how ADB's operations help improve people's lives in developing member countries and the challenges ADB and the countries face in pursuing agreed development goals. The briefs complement the annual Development Effectiveness Review in reporting on ADB's performance using the ADB Results Framework indicators.

The publication tells the story of how a country strategy was formulated to help government and civil society respond to the development challenges of a Pacific island's fragile state. By consistently focusing on identifying and building on the ownership and effective demand for change through consultative and participatory processes, the strategy reveals how the operations of a fragile state can be strengthened.

While the use of electric two-wheelers has increased in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the past decade, such unparalleled growth has not extended beyond the PRC's borders to countries, such as India and Viet Nam, where environmentally detrimental gasoline motorcycles dominate. This report documents market conditions in Ahmedabad, India, and Ha Noi, Viet Nam, to explain why this is so, and analyzes the potential environmental impact of electric two-wheelers to show how they could chart a path toward sustainable transport in these and other countries in the region.

This report documents the findings of a process mapping exercise aimed at identifying bottlenecks in the prosecution of tax evasion cases. While the exercise was conducted in 2007 and the report presents a snapshot of issues at that time, many of the key challenges identified remain relevant today, while the strengthening of revenue collection has become even more of a critical priority in light of the impact of the global financial crisis.

This paper examines the effectiveness of environment courts in the PRC and elsewhere, so that the lessons learned can be applied in the PRC and in other developing countries. It also recommends ways to promote environmental justice in the PRC, given that the 11 environment courts are no longer enough to handle the rapidly increasing caseload throughout the country.

This report examines the impact on the local people of an important infrastructure project in northwest Lao People's Democratic Republic-the upgrade of Route 3, which forms part of the Northern Economic Corridor linking Thailand with the People's Republic of China. The report also outlines the implications for future HIV mitigation programs, and recommends ways to ensure that future programs maximize the good that infrastructure development brings and minimize negative impacts.

This report is part of the efforts of the Asian Development Bank to support justice sector reform. It provides an overview of the sector, identifies key constraints and issues confronting it, and undertakes a preliminary assessment of reform initiatives by justice sector agencies-mainly the judiciary-through 2009.

This good practice guide focuses on policy options, strategies, and practical tools for identifying and obtaining information to feed into country-specific dialogue concerning funding shortfalls and innovative methods of higher education finance, including partnerships with the private sector.