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.
Utsav Kumar
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Implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement: From Global Impacts to Value Chains
This paper uses a new methodology that factors in general equilibrium effects to estimate the potential impacts of the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA).
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Sri Lanka’s Macroeconomic Challenges: A Tale of Two Deficits
This paper provides a narrative of Sri Lanka’s history of twin fiscal and current account deficits. It examines the macroeconomic outcomes and policies to deal with the imbalances.
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Trade Costs, Time, and Supply Chain Reliability
South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation countries have to invest in improving connectivity to reduce transport times and increase reliability to major markets.
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Trade Facilitation and Innovation: Evidence from South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Countries
South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation countries can improve their trade facilitation performances as a way to promote innovation. Shorter trade times encourage the introduction of new projects and management systems at firm levels.
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Middle-Income Transitions: Trap or Myth?
The phenomenon of the middle-income trap is problematic because it has not been defined and has not been studied theoretically. The idea of a trap implies that economies are stuck, which is not what this paper finds.
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What Constrains Indian Manufacturing?
This paper uses Annual Survey of Industries data at the 3-digit level and employ a difference-in-differences strategy to shed light on the empirical importance of factors commonly believed to be constraining formal Indian manufacturing.