Description

Improving governance and reducing vulnerability to corruption are core development challenges. Development is essentially about reducing poverty, and there is clear evidence that the poor are the most vulnerable to corruption and suffer the most from the impacts of poor governance and weakly performing institutions. This paper presents a brief overview of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) recent experience in supporting the efforts of countries in the Asia and Pacific region as they work to strengthen governance. This paper will (i) highlight recent global and regional trends and challenges affecting governance in Asia and the Pacific; (ii) describe ADB's response to these trends and challenges; (iii) highlight experience with implementation of ADB's Second Governance and Anticorruption Action Plan; and (iv) identify, from the development practitioner's perspective, areas that could benefit from further academic study.

Contents

• Introduction
• ADB’s Governance, Anticorruption, and Capacity Development Framework
• Governance and Poverty Reduction
• Emerging Global and Regional Trends and Challenges
• ADB’s Response
• Conclusion