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April 2013

Deepening Divide: Can Asia Beat the Menace of Rising Inequality?

In this issue, Development Asia examines Asia’s widening inequality from many different perspectives. We look at the role of globalization in producing inequality, and consider the disputed relationship between inequality and economic growth.
April 2013

Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Operational Plan, 2013-2020

ADB's new operational plan for gender equality and women's empowerment sets out the strategic directions and the guiding framework for advancing the gender equality agenda and delivering better gender equality outcomes by 2020.
April 2013

Bhutan Living Standards Survey 2012

This report presents the analysis on the progress of Bhutan in improving their people’s lives in terms of health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and also in terms of non-traditional measures, such as self-rated poverty and happiness.
April 2013

Facilitating Safe Labor Migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion

This report, prepared by the International Organization for Migration and funded by the Asian Development Bank, highlights issues on labor migration in the GMS and offers recommendations toward increasing social protection for migrants, strengthening capacity and legal framework, and enhancing knowledge management mechanisms.
March 2013

Technological Change, Skill Demand, and Wage Inequality in Indonesia

This paper examines the empirical implications of technological changes for skill demand and wage inequality in Indonesia.
March 2013

Complexity, Specialization, and Growth

The authors devise an endogenous growth model with human capital accumulation to assess the impact of production complexity on economic output and its rate of growth.
March 2013

Pilot Fragility Assessment of an Informal Urban Settlement in Fiji

This fragility assessment of informal urban settlement in Suva, Fiji aims to examine fragility issues and map out appropriate development interventions in consultation with the community.
March 2013

On the Determinants of Scholastic Performance in Five Asian Countries

This paper takes an efficiency analysis perspective to analyze, on the basis of the data of the 2009 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey, the determinants of scholastic performance in five Asian countries (Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Thailand).
March 2013

Cost Recoverable Tariffs to Increase Access to Basic Services among Poor Households

A contingent valuation survey from the Water Supply and Sanitation Project of the Asian Development Bank in Cebu, Philippines is used to show that tariff structures with a low one-time connection price and price differentiates based on wealth measures can result in a five-fold increase in the take-up of water services by poor households over the base tariff structure.
March 2013

Working Differently in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations

This flyer summarizes ADB’s experiences in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS), highlighting flexibility, sustainability, and partnership as guiding principles for working in such difficult situations.