Asian Development Outlook 2013 Update: Asia's Governance Gap

The Asia and Pacific region must make headway toward catching up with the advanced economies and matching their quality of governance. Focusing on strengthening public service delivery can provide immediate benefits to make growth more inclusive and create momentum for wider governance reforms.

Report: Asian Development Outlook 2013 Update: Governance and Public Service Delivery

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Building Resilience Against Disasters

Human and financial losses from natural disasters are rising fast in the Asia and Pacific region. While most Asian countries have disaster handling capabilities, few have adequate provisions for financing post-disaster losses and rehabilitation. A new Asian Development Bank report says this trend can be reversed if significant investments are made to strengthen disaster resilience.

Philippines: Green Transportation Revolution

The Asian Development Bank is providing $300 million towards a groundbreaking project that will replace 100,000 gasoline-burning tricycles in the Philippines with clean, energy efficient electric tricycles, or E-Trikes.

HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific

ADB supports the fight against HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific by helping members respond to the epidemic affecting millions in the region.

Waste-to-Energy

Waste-to-energy (WTE) is the process of creating energy in the form of electricity or heat from the incineration of waste source. WTE is a form of energy recovery, and most processes produce electricity directly through combustion or produce a combustible fuel commodity.

Inclusive and Sustainable Transport

How do you provide access to jobs, markets, hospitals, and schools without creating more congestion, air pollution, traffic accidents, and greenhouse gas emissions?

Food Security in Asia and the Pacific

The world is facing a perilous convergence of depleting natural resources - of water, good land, energy, nutrients, technology, fish and stable climates.

ADO Update 2012: Growth Outlook

Developing Asia’s growth is slowing faster than anticipated in the Asian Development Outlook 2012. Deceleration in the region’s two giants - the People’s Republic of China and India - and major exporting economies is tempering earlier optimism.

ADO Update 2012: Services and Asia's Future Growth

Developing Asia’s growth is slowing faster than anticipated in the Asian Development Outlook 2012. Deceleration in the region’s two giants - the People’s Republic of China and India - and major exporting economies is tempering earlier optimism.

Greater Mekong Subregion: Twenty Years of Partnership

In 1992, six countries were brought together into a program of economic cooperation. 20 years later, what has the Greater Mekong Subregion achieved?

Infrastructure Development in the Greater Mekong Subregion

Over the course of two decades, the GMS Program has invested about $15 billion in projects covering subregional roads, airports and railways, power facilities, tourism infrastructure, and communicable disease prevention.