Papers and Briefs

Public–private partnerships, especially in the context of infrastructure development, have gained in popularity over the past decades and are now largely accepted both in developed and developing countries.

This brief outlines policy recommendations for safely reopening travel and tourism in Asia and the Pacific while prioritizing response, recovery, and resiliency during phases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

In Asia, where rapid urbanization is occurring, inadequate water and sanitation services are a problem due to insufficient investment.

This paper provides an overview of early childhood development in the People’s Republic of China and calls for a comprehensive and equitable early childhood development service system to build its essential public service systems.

This paper extends the supply side argument of the Domar model for fiscal sustainability and examines the case of the bond market in People’s Republic of China.

This brief offers policy recommendations for streamlining and digitizing port logistics and operations in India based on findings of a study conducted on the Jawaharlal Nehru and Vishakhapatnam ports.

This paper describes the hospital sector in Mongolia along with reforms and results achieved, challenges that remain, and ongoing and future directions for ADB support to better respond to the needs of the people.

The development of fintech has significantly mitigated local theft activities.

Indonesia’s fintech market has been relatively resilient to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pooling credit information enables the construction of a more informative credit model for MSMEs, which can then serve as a common good among lenders.