This commemorative book celebrates 10 years of productive collaboration under the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program. Under CAREC, its member countries have made significant gains in regional transport, energy infrastructure, and trade facilitation and policy, which have increased both the pace and quality of development in the subregion. The spirit of trust and confidence ...

This publication provides specific guidance in four primary aspects of financial due diligence: financial management assessment, project cost estimates and financing plan, financial analysis, and financial evaluation. It also provides guidance on assessing the project’s disbursement and auditing arrangements. This document is a summary of the key steps involved in assessing project’s financial ...

"The Japan Fund for Public Policy Training was established in March 2004 as a trust fund to enhance developing member countries’ capacity building for public policy management, focusing on regional economies in transition. Since its inception, the Government of Japan has contributed more than $22 million. The country director of the Asian Development Bank’s Viet Nam Resident Mission acted as the ...

Credit rating is one of the key elements for the development of bond markets. ADB believes that international best practices in rating, particularly those aim to address conflict of interest in rating complex products in line with recent IOSCO recommendations, are essential for Asian domestic credit rating agencies (DCRAs) to adopt. International best practices will help enhance comparability of ...

Learning Lessons in ADB: Strategic Framework, 2007-2009 sets the stage for regular annual knowledge audits for systematic identifi cation and analysis of knowledge needs, products and services, gaps, flows, uses, and users from the perspective of learning lessons. The publication also permits formulation of annual business plans to deliver outputs steadily against each interface.

"The Japan Fund for Public Policy Training was established in March 2004 as a trust fund to enhance developing member countries’ capacity building for public policy management, focusing on regional economies in transition. Since its inception, the Government of Japan has contributed more than $22 million. The country director of the Asian Development Bank’s Viet Nam Resident Mission acts as the ...

The ADB Annual Meeting 2013 theme of ‘Development through Empowerment’ provided an opportunity for stakeholders to discuss various approaches that would foster broad-based benefits and opportunities for all.

ADB's long-term strategic framework, Strategy 2020, argues that knowledge solutions must be enriched through internal learning from operational practice and external learning from long-term knowledge partnerships. The Guidelines for Knowledge Partnerships offer a framework for strengthening such partnerships. They specify the essentials of designing for performance, articulate building blocks, and ...

This report examines how legal empowerment - or the use of law to increase the control that disadvantaged populations exercise over their lives - contributes to good governance, poverty reduction, and other development goals, and how it can enhance projects funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and other development agencies.

The ADB Annual Meeting 2014 theme of The Silk Road—Connecting Asia with the Changing World, took a fresh look at Central Asia's pivotal role in bridging Asia with the global economy.