ADBI Books
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High-Speed Rail Services in Asia
The Asian Journal Special Issue on High-Speed Rail Services in Asia provides an overview on the impacts of High-Speed Rail infrastructure in Asia. Presenting cases from several countries in Asia, the journal explains how investment in HSR. -
Building Partnerships for Effectively Managing Labor Migration: Lessons from Asian Countries
This book analyzes labor migration trends and policies in Asia and emphasizes the importance of partnerships to promote effective labor migration management. -
Demystifying Rising Inequality in Asia
Rising income inequality is a key challenge for policy makers in developing Asia. -
Routledge Handbook of Banking and Finance in Asia
This handbook brings together leading scholars, policy makers, and practitioners to provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge guide to Asia’s financial institutions, markets, and systems. -
Avoiding the Middle-Income Trap in Asia: The Role of Trade, Manufacturing, and Finance
Growth in high-income countries differs qualitatively from that of middle-income countries, and hence requires different factor endowments, industrial structures, and policies. -
Tax and Development: Challenges in Asia and the Pacific
Taxation is increasingly in the limelight as a development agenda item, particularly with the emergence of the G20 as the premier international forum. -
Kuznets beyond Kuznets: Structural Transformation and Income Inequality in the Era of Globalization in Asia
Structural transformation is a key factor in determining productivity growth and income distribution in Asia. -
Postal Savings: Reaching Everyone in Asia
Postal networks do much to improve people’s access to bank accounts in a digitally connected 21st century. -
Wealthy But Unhealthy: Overweight and Obesity in Asia and the Pacific: Trends, Costs, and Policies for Better Health
High rates of overweight and obesity in Asia and the Pacific seriously threaten people’s health and undermine the region’s prosperity. -
Mission Incomplete: Reflating Japan's Economy (second edition)
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.