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Here's how to pay for all that new infrastructure. Governments and developers worldwide are looking for better ways to build and renovate highways, railways, bridges and dams.
This major new book from ADBIPress provides real answers on how to attract private financing. Latest evidence on the full impacts of infrastructure on economic and social indicators, especially spillover effects, and innovative ideas for new financing are comprehensively presented by experts.
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Food Assistance and the Social Construction of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018-12-27)Taking food assistance as its starting point, this article examines the underlying system of ideas that the Bangladeshi government and humanitarian organizations have about the term ‘refugee’. Through a consideration of refugee coping strategies, host ... -
India's Phytonutrient Report - Executive Summary
(Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2018-11-30)India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), India will outgrow China (growth projected at 6.3 per cent) with a GDP growth rate of 7.5 per cent during the period of 2015-16. With a ... -
India's Development Assistance to Nepal: Case of the Education Sector
(Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2018-11-30)India has historically been an aid receiver; however, since independence, India has been a prominent aid donor to its neighbouring countries, Nepal being one of the earliest recipients of India’s aid. The economic assistance provided by India to other ... -
Hiking prices and tourism funding: Are we on the right track?
(New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, 2018-11-30)International tourism to New Zealand has grown rapidly in recent years, and in the long hot summer of 2017/18 it made headlines for the wrong reasons, with reports of crowds at the country’s beauty spots and freedom campers despoiling wild places. The ... -
Division of Labour Amongst Innovation Intermediaries in Agricultural Innovation Systems: The Case of Indonesia
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2018-11-15)Innovation intermediaries are individuals and organisations that enhance connectivity amongst constituencies of national, sectoral, and regional systems of innovation, thereby facilitating knowledge spillover. This paper articulates the whole picture ... -
Discovering the Philippines’ Potential Export Portfolio through the Product Space: Some Products and Ways Forward
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2018-11-15)While the Philippines has a long history of trade liberalization efforts and market-oriented reforms, the country has to yet to see a genuine structural transformation. Recently, there are efforts to transform the manufacturing industry into a globally ... -
Investment Climate Improvement in East Coast Economic Corridor of India: Governance and Institutional Reforms Support to the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Department, Government of Tamil Nadu
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-11-15)Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) play a vital role in the economic development of India. They contribute about 45% of India’s industrial production and 40% of its exports; furthermore, they constitute 95% of the total industrial units in ... -
Harnessing the Potential of the Philippines’ Agricultural Sector: An Assessment using the Product Space
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2018-11-15)This paper analyzes the prospects of the country’s agricultural sector to evolve into a high value-added sector. In particular, the paper identifies the country’s agricultural exports that has forward linkages to other high value adding agricultural ... -
Trade Openness and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Evidence from Cities in the People's Republic of China
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-11-15)This paper examines the impact on the environment of economic growth and trade openness in 261 cities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over the period 2004–2013, using a recently developed, continuously updated, fully modified method that allows ... -
Trade Liberalization and the Hukou System of the People's Republic of China: How Migration Frictions can Amplify the Unequal Gains from Trade
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-11-15)The emergence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as a great economic power has stimulated an epochal shift in patterns of world trade, accompanied by a remarkable level of internal migration within the country. Hundreds of millions of Chinese ...