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The annual Asian Development Outlook (ADO) provides a comprehensive analysis of economic performance for the past year and offers forecasts for the next 2 years for the 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific that make up developing Asia.

ADB recently completed two projects that provided many Kyrgyz women in rural villages with training and support for building small enterprises, thus enabling them to improve their skills, become more productive, earn higher incomes, and gain greater confidence in themselves.

This is the eighth GDCF report presenting progress and achievements from all grant components, and RETA 6143 subprojects approved, implemented or completed in 2011.

This publication presents the results of a pilot project that sought to involve women and indigenous minorities in rural road maintenance projects, both to undertake badly needed improvements in rural roads, and to create employment opportunities for them.

Using survey data collected at the Border-Gate Economic Zones (BEZs) in Viet Nam and from the Viet Nam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) to examine the factors that influence earnings in the BEZs and in the border provinces that host the BEZs and those where no BEZs are present, this research finds that the BEZs and cross-border integration increase the earnings of female labor.

This brief explores the Asian Development Bank's technical assistance grant for Strengthened Gender Impacts of Social Protection, linked to the Social Protection Support Project (SPSP) which assists the Government of the Philippines in implementing and expanding its social protection program, Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (or 4Ps).

This brochure outlines ADB's commitment to gender equality, and shows how gender equality considerations are addressed across the full range of ADB operations.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) seeks to improve the lives of women in Sindh in the aftermath of the 2010 flood. This brochure narrates ADB's efforts in developing a project that will not only transfer assets and skills to women but also empower them and include them in public life.

本手册的目的是帮助中国云南省的养护队管理和实施沙石乡村道路的 日常养护。

This guide describes how to implement a system of community-based rural road maintenance involving groups of women, specifically in Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China.