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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How ADB Uses Futures and Foresight Tools to Help Countries Prepare for an Uncertain Future
As ADB’s developing member countries target sustainable growth and tackle inequality, this brief shows how future-focused tools and approaches can lead to forward-thinking strategies designed to navigate climate change and digital transformation. -
How the Asian Development Bank Uses Change Management to Unlock the Value of Knowledge
This brief explores how change and new approaches to knowledge operate in a virtuous cycle.
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How ADB’s Knowledge Management Action Plan 2021–2025 Will Deliver Better Development Impact
This brief provides an overview of how ADB’s Knowledge Management Action Plan (KMAP) 2021–2025 was developed and provides lessons for other organizations looking to improve their knowledge management.
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Getting Ready for the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
This brief discusses the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine procurement and distribution in Asia and the Pacific along with challenges and policy implications toward delivering safe, effective, and affordable vaccines to all.
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Healthy and Age-Friendly Cities in the People's Republic of China: Proposal for Health Impact Assessment and Healthy and Age-Friendly City Action and Management Planning
This report discusses framework for a four-generation urban society in the People’s Republic of China to create positive health outcomes and improve urban livability, services, and public spaces for the elderly.
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Public Health Innovations for COVID-19: Finding, Trusting, and Scaling Innovation
This paper provides an overview of innovative solutions that can bolster public health responses during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals through Better Local-Level Data: A Case Study of Lumajang and Pacitan Districts in Indonesia
This publication presents a case study in East Java, Indonesia, about ADB’s collaboration with local governments and other stakeholders in monitoring, implementing, raising awareness, and advocating for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Vertical Industry Development to Leverage Innovation: A Model for Leapfrogging Technology and Driving Competitiveness
This paper proposes a development model that can help create, shape, and promote more innovative vertical industries. It explores success criteria and highlights lessons learned from four vertical industry development cases.
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Global Shortage of Personal Protective Equipment amid COVID-19: Supply Chains, Bottlenecks, and Policy Implications
This brief examines the global shortage of the personal protective equipment (PPE) needed to tackle COVID-19 and suggests policy implications.
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Digital Health Convergence Meeting Tool Kit
This tool kit comprises information on how to create a shared vision for digital health through a national strategy, focused on maximizing the value of resources.
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Beyond Technology: Three Ways Behavior Shifts Can Influence the Energy Transition
Technology is crucial to the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy but it must be accompanied by community-wide behavior changes if it is to be successful, particularly in developing countries. -
Could ChatGPT be a Game Changer for International Development? We Asked It.
Large language model artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, Bard and others, has great potential in the world of international development. But – at least for now – it also has serious limitations. -
Excluding LGBTI People Hurts National Development. Here Are 3 Reasons Why.
Development efforts should provide all individuals, including members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex community, with the opportunity to live with the identities they choose. -
How Behavioral Science Can Help Fight Climate Change
Behavioral insights offer effective tools to come up with innovative solutions to address people’s behavior and biases regarding climate change. -
Asia and the Pacific’s Developing Countries Need a Mission to Move Forward
As the region recovers from the pandemic there is an opportunity to rethink how development is undertaken and to deploy mission-oriented approaches to policy making. -
The Pandemic Shows Us That Countries Need to Work Together and Act on Evidence
There has been a sharp contrast between evidence and policies during the pandemic, but these actions will encourage evidence-informed policymaking as we move forward. -
We Need to Think Beyond Plain-Vanilla Privatization for State-Owned Enterprises
Simple privatization was once seen as a catch-all solution to the problems of state-owned enterprises. Today, broader solutions are needed that change the systems in which these companies operate. -
Lower Birth Rates and an Aging Population Can Help Heal Asian Economies
Slowing population growth can have broad benefits for society, including enhancing the many ways that older citizens enrich our communities. -
The Little-Known Key to Successful Pandemic Response: Knowledge Management
As the region builds back from the pandemic, now is the time to invest in knowledge management. The investment will pay off with interest over the long term. -
What We Urgently Need Besides a Vaccine
With millions of confirmed COVID-19 infections worldwide and hundreds of thousands of deaths, the search for solutions to end the impacts of COVID-19 is overpowering. Finding a safe and effective vaccine is one crucial answer to the crisis. But there is more to it. -
We Need To Do Whatever it Takes to Improve Air Quality
Now is the time to take advantage of the clean air being experienced in many cities across Asia. We must not support a “quick and dirty” post-COVID-19 recovery plan that returns pollution to the region’s skies. -
Digital Innovators Have Joined the Fight Against COVID-19
Governments and private companies are working together to find innovative digital solutions to the problems presented by the COVID-19 crisis.