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.
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Estimating Fiscal Multipliers in Selected Asian Economies
This paper estimates the effects of fiscal measures on output using 2000–2019 data from nine developing Asian economies.
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Uzbekistan: Quality Job Creation as a Cornerstone for Sustainable Economic Growth
This book analyses how Uzbekistan can boost sustainable economic growth to create more and better jobs.
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Maintaining Social Cohesion in the People’s Republic of China in the New Era
This paper examines the need to reduce inequalities in income, wealth, and educational opportunities as the People’s Republic of China shifts to high-quality development.
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Potential Use of the Life Satisfaction Approach to Value Nonmarket Goods and Services
This paper explains the life satisfaction approach to economic analysis and illustrates it with an example of flooding in the Philippines.
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Improving Indonesia's Domestic Connectivity: An Inter-regional CGE Analysis
Indonesia's economic growth is slowed by poor transport infrastructure. This paper provides some rough estimates, generated using a regional CGE model (IndoTERM), of the possible benefits to Indonesia of reducing transport costs.
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Economy-wide Impact of a More Efficient Tanjung Priok Port
Indonesia's growth has long been constrained by sluggish infrastructure development. An often-cited example is Tanjung Priok port, which serves more than two-thirds of the country's international trade.
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Summary of Indonesia's Economic Analysis
Indonesia’s economic growth averaged 5.8% over the last decade. However, GDP growth has decelerated gradually since peaking at 6.5% in 2011 to 5.1% in 2014, its slowest since 2009.
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Preparing for El Niño: Policy Options
Scientists are forecasting that there may be a severe El Niño weather event lasting through mid-2016. For Indonesia, El Niño events are associated with prolonged drought, with adverse effects on food and cash crop production.
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Azerbaijan: Moving Toward More Diversified, Resilient, and Inclusive Development
Azerbaijan has set the course for the economy to reduce its dependence on oil by promoting new drivers of growth. This publication emphasizes the need for diversification, particularly in the agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing sectors.
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Reforms, Opportunities, and Challenges for State-Owned Enterprises
This book explores issues relating to the role and performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, and Viet Nam, with insights on evolving roles in the Republic of Korea.
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Кыргызская Республика: улучшение потенциала роста
В данной книге представлен глубокий анализ секторных реформ, необходимых для того, чтобы Кыргызская Республика могла достичь более высокого и устойчивого экономического роста.
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Kyrgyz Republic: Improving Growth Potential
This book presents an in-depth analysis of the sector reforms needed to enable the Kyrgyz Republic to achieve higher and more sustainable economic growth.
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Kazakhstan: Accelerating Economic Diversification
This book presents an in-depth analysis of sectors and reforms that can support Kazakhstan’s potential to become an economic leader in Central Asia.
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Indonesia: Enhancing Productivity through Quality Jobs
The book focuses on Indonesia’s most pressing labor market challenges and associated policy options to achieve higher and more inclusive economic growth.
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The Sri Lankan Economy: Charting A New Course
This analysis of critical constraints on the Sri Lankan economy proposes a set of policy reforms that would lay the foundations for more rapid and inclusive development.