ADBI Books
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Safeguarding the Rights of Asian Migrant Workers from Home to the Workplace
This book reviews recent regional migration trends, highlights the growing number of labor migrants in Asia and examines the policy question of how to best safeguard their rights. -
Mission Incomplete: Reflating Japan's Economy
In April 2013 the Bank of Japan launched an unprecedented quantitative and qualitative monetary easing policy. It was thought that a 2% price stability target could be achieved within 2 years; 4 years on and we are still mission incomplete. -
SMEs in Developing Asia: New Approaches to Overcoming Market Failures
This book focuses on the market failures encountered by enterprises in the key areas of technology and innovation, credit and finance, education and skills, and market access. -
The Asian ‘Poverty Miracle’: Impressive Accomplishments or Incomplete Achievements?
This book explores the Asian ‘poverty miracle’ and argues for the development and use of an Asia-specific poverty line. -
The Housing Challenge in Emerging Asia: Options and Solutions
The book offers an innovative theoretical framework to conceptualize and analyze various housing policies. -
Promoting Better Lifetime Planning Through Financial Education
Effective pension management, financial education curricula in schools, internationally comparable data on financial literacy and the evaluation of the effectiveness of financial education programs are highlighted in this book. -
Monetary Policy and the Oil Market
While oil price fluctuations in the past can be explained by pure supply factors, this book argues that it is monetary policy that plays a significant role in setting global oil prices. -
Connecting Asia: Infrastructure for Integrating South and Southeast Asia
This book analyses how closer regional connectivity and economic integration between South Asia and Southeast Asia can benefit both regions, with a focus on the role played by infrastructure and public policies in facilitating this process. -
Production Networks and Enterprises in East Asia - Industry and Firm-level Analysis
This book offers lessons for other developing regions (e.g. South Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Africa) interested in joining production networks to achieve industrialization and growth -
Labor Migration in Asia: Building Effective Institutions
This report analyzes the institutions and structures that govern labor migration in Asia. It considers the important role of governments and other stakeholders in both labor-destination countries and labor-sending countries.