ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty.
Established in 1966, it is owned by 68 members—49 from the region.
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ADB supports projects in developing member countries that create economic and development impact, delivered through both public and private sector operations, advisory services, and knowledge support.
Elisabetta Gentile
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Open for Business: How Maldives Overcame the COVID-19 Crisis
The pandemic’s devastating impact on tourism-dependent Maldives highlighted the need to diversify its economy to reduce macroeconomic instability and insulate it against future shocks. -
Barriers to Entry: Decomposing the Gender Gap in Job Search in Urban Pakistan
Using matched data from three sources in Lahore, Pakistan, the paper finds that employers’ gender restrictions are a larger constraint on women’s job opportunities than supply-side decisions.
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How Female-Friendly Are Workplaces in Urban Pakistan?
This brief analyzes how Pakistan's workplaces accommodate women and offers solutions to make them more inclusive to narrow down the gender gap in the country's labor force.
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How Teachers Teach: Comparing Classroom Pedagogical Practices in the Asia and Pacific Region
This brief analyzes qualitative evidence to give policy makers a clearer picture of teaching practices in Asia and the Pacific. It highlights the need to improve teaching to tackle the learning crisis, which the pandemic has made worse.
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Assessing the Impact of the United States–People’s Republic of China Trade Dispute Using a Multiregional Computable General Equilibrium Model
This paper quantifies the cost of the trade dispute that started in 2017 between the United States and the People’s Republic of China for the countries involved and the global economy.
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The Rise of Robots and the Fall of Routine Jobs
This paper finds that greater use of industrial robots relates significantly to a fall in the employment share of routine manual jobs in high-income economies, but not in emerging market and transition economies.
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Massive Open Online Courses for Building Statistical Capacity in Computer-Assisted Surveys
This brief explains how massive open online courses (MOOCs) can be used to build capacity among statistics professionals in computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI).
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Taking Education to the Next Level: What Can Be Learned from Benchmarking Education across Economies?
This paper provides new evidence on the types of inputs that matter to improving educational outcomes. Data from across 69 economies were gathered using a scoring system that attempts to capture quality dimensions.
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The Employment Effects of Technological Innovation, Consumption, and Participation in Global Value Chains: Evidence from Developing Asia
This paper examines how employment responded to consumption, trade, and technological advances in developing Asia during the period 2005–2015.
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Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Technology Licensing in Developing Countries: An Empirical Investigation
Does expanded and strengthened protection of intellectual property (IP) foster technology transfer to developing countries?
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Global Value Chain Development Report 2021: Beyond Production
This joint report explores the transformation of global value chains as they expand beyond manufacturing to services and intangible assets. It highlights opportunities for services-led development and discusses policy considerations.
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Skilled Labor Mobility and Migration: Challenges and Opportunities for the ASEAN Economic Community
This book discusses the importance of the free movement of skilled workers in Southeast Asia. It assesses current challenges and opportunities and suggests a range of enabling policy measures.
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Beyond Tourism: Diversifying The Maldivian Economy for A Sustainable Future
The pandemic, which devastated the tourism industry worldwide, illustrated the importance of Maldives diversifying its economy to sectors other than tourism and travel. -
Inadequate Learning, Loss of Earnings: The Staggering Cost of School Closures in Asia
If safe re-opening and remedial actions are not prioritized, Asia’s students will bear the long-term costs of this pandemic. -
Why Aren’t Students in Asia Getting the Education They Need?
Local decision makers, civil society, teachers, and parents need to be engaged with and driving reforms if teaching is going to shift sufficiently to tackle Asia’s learning crisis. -
Why Southeast Asia Shouldn’t Worry About “Brain Drain”
Here’s why the perception that skilled migration damages the source country is wrong.