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- This guidance note explains why countries in Asia and the Pacific should use technology including remote sensing and artificial intelligence to reform property tax management and help strengthen public finances.
- This guide shows how using gender budgeting to weave gender-related targets into fiscal policies and public financial management can reduce inequality and drive stronger and more stable economic growth in Asia and the Pacific.
- This report explains why strengthening the governance around public investment management is central to cutting inefficiencies and unblocking the climate finance needed to narrow Asia and the Pacific’s gaping infrastructure gap.
- The effectiveness of government policies is greatly influenced by people’s trust in state and political institutions.
- Enrollment in tertiary education remains a barrier for many aspirants in the Philippines.
- Developing Asian economies have the potential to raise tax revenues by exploring untapped sources and improving compliance to help meet key development goals, this brief explains.
- To bolster economic and financial analyses through national account statistics, this publication presents a model developed by ADB to provide a more consistent measure of non-recoverable VAT on products.
- Assessing how Asia and the Pacific can benefit from stronger tax systems, this comparative analysis drills down into the set-ups and performance of revenue bodies in 41 economies to highlight reform challenges and outline opportunities.
- Government policies that promote cloud adoption not only improve government effectiveness but also have positive spillover effects on the rest of the economy.
- As climate change poses a growing fiscal risk to Asia and the Pacific, policymakers need to better analyze the challenges, devise practical solutions, and attract private funding to strengthen climate-resilient fiscal management.
- This brief analyzes how tax incentives are employed across Asia and the Pacific, looks at their effectiveness, and considers how they can best be used to encourage investment in activities with clear social benefits.
- Micro-level intervention on the household choice of remittance channels and providers can potentially contribute to reducing remittance costs in the region.
- This publication is designed to help tax analysts estimate revenue losses from tax expenditures and tax incentives. It presents the methodologies commonly used to estimate revenues forgone using varying sources of data.
- Fossil fuel subsidy removal by increasing user prices does not guarantee a reduction in emissions.
- Continued growth is expected in the Pacific, but governments need to generate additional resources for public infrastructure and services essential to sustaining economic development.
- State decentralization is often promoted to improve public service delivery, but its effects on forest conservation are ambiguous.
- Analyzing how big data can help countries swiftly analyze disaster impacts, mobilize resources, and implement recovery strategies, this brief considers governance and security challenges around the technology that can cut the cost of major events.
- This brief examines the public health consequences of smoking in five Asian countries and evaluates strategies to raise tobacco taxes to reduce smoking prevalence and boost revenue.
- This governance brief details the digitalization of the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) tax administration, assesses how its strategy can bolster tax revenues, and explores how developing countries can replicate its strategy to roll-out e-taxation models.
- At least in the first 6 months of school reopening in Malaysia, concerns over a lack of social interaction in school prevail.