Books
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River Basin Management Planning in Indonesia: Policy and Practice
Indonesia’s rapid economic growth, increasing populations, and trends in developing and urbanizing environments are leading to potential conflicts as more users claim the same water resources. -
Reducing Disaster Risk by Managing Urban Land Use: Guidance Notes for Planners
Urban areas in Asian countries continue to face significant disaster risk. Rapid unplanned growth of cities increases the exposure and vulnerability of urban populations and their physical assets to natural hazards. -
Urban Development in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Urbanization is set to play an ever greater role in the development of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries, transforming their economies and providing support to green economic growth. -
Scaling New Heights: Vizag-Chennai Industrial Corridor, India’s First Coastal Corridor
India's first coastal economic corridor can help unify the country's domestic market, integrate its economy with Asia's global value chains, and support the Made in India initiative to spur manufacturing. -
Together We Deliver 2015: Partnerships against Poverty
Strong partnerships create better outcomes by improving coordination, providing specialized knowledge and expertise, and convening larger amounts of financing for ADB projects. -
Promoting Better Lifetime Planning Through Financial Education
Effective pension management, financial education curricula in schools, internationally comparable data on financial literacy and the evaluation of the effectiveness of financial education programs are highlighted in this book. -
Asian Development Outlook 2016: Asia's Potential Growth
Growth is slowing in many developing countries in Asia as a result of the continued weak recovery in major industrial economies and softer growth prospects for the People’s Republic of China. -
GrEEEn Solutions for Livable Cities
Practical ways on how urban managers, development practitioners, businesses, and citizens can engage to make cities more livable by building on the city’s unique physical, social, cultural, economic and human resource assets. -
Monetary Policy and the Oil Market
While oil price fluctuations in the past can be explained by pure supply factors, this book argues that it is monetary policy that plays a significant role in setting global oil prices. -
Innovation Networks and the New Asian Regionalism: A Knowledge Platform on Economic Productivity
The rise of Asia, as well as the future of regional cooperation and integration the world over, will be profoundly influenced by the challenges of slowing productivity growth, increasing economic inequalities and systemic vulnerabilities.