Private Sector
Theme curator: Stillman, Grant B.
Search more Other themesPublic-Private Partnerships for Quality Infrastructure Investment
Asia's unmet demand for high-quality infrastructure will continue to require heavy participation by the private sector. Learn about the many ways public and private sectors can partner on the next generation of development and ESG investment.
Hybrid financing instrument combines promise of social and development impact bonds with proven asset class of project revenue bonds:
Introducing the "tax-kicker" bond with model term sheet -- a new debt security to unlock future value for increasing present returns on private sector investment in infrastructure by allowing back-end participation in tax revenue growth.
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Tariff Policies and Wages in Manufacturing Industries: New Evidence from Viet Nam
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2020-03-30)This paper reviews the tariff policies and their impact on the wages of workers in manufacturing during the substantial trade liberalisation period in Viet Nam from 2011 to 2015, the four years following Viet Nam becoming a middle-income country. The ... -
Assessing the Resurgent Irrigation Development Program of the Philippines – Communal Irrigation Systems Component
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2020-03-15)The project aims to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the government's irrigation program with focus on the technical, physical, and institutional aspects of performance of communal irrigation systems (CIS). Cycle 1 involved the assessment ... -
Do Regional Trade Agreements Really Help Global Value Chains Develop? Evidence from Thailand
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2020-03-15)This paper examines the firm-level nexus between exporting and importing by using firm-level data from Thai customs. We differentiate firms’ imports according to the tariff regime used (e.g. regional trade agreements (RTAs)). Our finding is that imports ... -
Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor: A Bold Strategic Move
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2020-03-04)The Thai Government is placing high hopes on its flagship project – the Eastern Economic Corridor special development zone, or EEC – as a game-changing engine of growth for the country’s economy. The ambition is to transform three major provinces – ... -
Analyzing the Falling Solar and Wind Tariffs: Evidence from India
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020-02-28)India needs to considerably accelerate its solar and wind energy capacity addition in order to meet its renewable energy (RE) capacity deployment targets. Besides policy commitments, the cost-competitiveness of RE tariffs is a major determinant of ... -
Blockchain and Tokenized Securities: The Potential for Green Finance
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020-02-28)Green investment vehicles are limited by multiple market failures, such as high transaction costs for certification and monitoring, and high minimum investment sizes. In this exploratory study, we apply an inductive approach based on qualitative evidence ... -
Conditions for Effective Macroprudential Policy Interventions
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-02-28)This paper aims at identifying effective macroprudential policy (MPP) interventions and analysing the macroeconomic conditions that promote them. We define effective MPP interventions as those that stabilize its underlying target variable, such as ... -
Assessing the Resurgent Irrigation Development Program of the Philippines – National Irrigation Systems Component
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2020-02-28)This Project focused on the evaluation of National Irrigation Systems (NIS) in the Philippines which consisted of 22 NIS in Luzon and 17 NIS in Visayas and Mindanao and are represented by 151 Irrigators Associations (IAs). The overall objective is to ... -
Four Years of SDGs in Bangladesh: Measuring Progress and Charting the Path Forward
(Centre for Policy Dialogue, 2020-02-28)This publication takes stock of the progress made by Bangladesh in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during the first four-year cycle (2015–2019) of the 2030 Agenda. The volume is the product of a unique participatory exercise which ... -
New Zealand’s pandemic response: Best practice or just a practice run?
(New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, 2020-02-28)In “(Nearly) nothing to fear but fear itself”, a 2009 article for The Economist, French economist Olivier Jean Blanchard argued that in a crisis, policy makers should focus on reducing uncertainty: “Crises feed uncertainty. And uncertainty affects ...