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    Year in Review 2016

    Asian Development Bank Institute | June 2017
    Abstract
    ADB Institute (ADBI) collaborates with the ADB headquarters in Manila on demand-oriented research, and capacity building and training. One of our main interests is infrastructure. Many Asian countries have huge infrastructure needs but insufficient funds. Public–private partnerships are, therefore, important, but many face obstacles because returns on infrastructure are usually low. User charges such as highway tolls or railway fees are a major source of income, but because highways and railways are public goods, governments often regulate their pricing. Water supply and electricity are also public goods and so their price is controlled. It is difficult, therefore, to induce the private sector to invest in them. But a region with good water and electricity supply can attract companies, which would increase employment and land prices, and generate tax revenues with the spillover effects of investment. If tax revenues are partly returned to investors, their rate of return would be greatly increased.
    Citation
    Asian Development Bank Institute. 2017. Year in Review 2016. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8458.
    Keywords
    Alleviating Poverty
    Anti-Poverty
    Extreme Poverty
    Fight Against Poverty
    Global Poverty
    Health Aspects Of Poverty
    Indicators Of Poverty
    Participatory Poverty Assessment
    Poverty Eradication
    Poverty Analysis
    Poverty In Developing Countries
    Poverty Reduction Efforts
    Urban Poverty
    Development projects
    Physical infrastructure
    Soft infrastructure
    Infrastructure finance
    Infrastructure bonds
    Transport infrastructure
    Roads
    Highways
    Railways
    Ports
    Airports
    Pipelines
    Water supply
    Power production
    Power transmission
    Power distribution
    Telecommunications
    Infrastructure connectivity
    Cross border connectivity
    Development Indicators
    Environmental Indicators
    Economic Indicators
    Educational Indicators
    Demographic Indicators
    Health Indicators
    Disadvantaged Groups
    Low Income Groups
    Socially Disadvantaged Children
    Rural Conditions
    Rural Development
    Social Conditions
    Urban Development
    Urban Sociology
    Poor
    Economic forecasting
    Health expectancy
    Social groups
    Political participation
    Distribution of income
    Inequality of income
    Developing countries
    Rural community development
    Mass society
    Social change
    Social policy
    Social stability
    Population
    Sustainable development
    Peasantry
    Urban policy
    Urban renewal
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    Asian Development Bank Institute
    Theme
    Poverty
    Infrastructure
    Labor Migration
     
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