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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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Financing Infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific: Capturing Impacts and New Sources
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-03-30)
This major book from ADBI Press aims to provide the latest scientific evidence on infrastructure investment, including new ideas as to how to finance infrastructure. The editors believe the 500-page book will make an important contribution to help Asia ...
Introducing the Tax-Kicker Bond: Budget-Neutral Financing of Private Infrastructure by Back-End Participation in Future Tax Revenue Growth
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-08-30)
This brief shows the spillover effect of how infrastructure can create jobs, industries, and regional wealth. Revenue from property rates, income and business taxes, as well as sales or value-added tax increases along the periphery and adjacent areas ...
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Uzbekistan: Housing for Integrated Rural Development Investment Program—Tranches 1, 2, and 3
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-10-15)1. In August 2011, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a multitranche financing facility (MFF) to Uzbekistan for the Housing for Integrated Rural Development Investment Program. The MFF program aimed to support the government’s rural housing ... -
India: MFF-Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 5)
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-10-15)During early 2000s, the state of Madhya Pradesh faced formidable difficulties in providing energy supplies needed to spur its poverty reduction and economic development. According to the report and recommendation of the President (RRP), transmission ... -
A Giant Slowly Rises: From Southeast Asia to the Indian Ocean, New Delhi's Reach is Growing - Sometimes Incrementally, but Sometimes Significantly
(Brookings India, 2018-10-15)In trying to assess the strategic environment in which India finds itself in 2018, may be useful to make eight broad observations. -
Emerging Lessons on Women’s Entrepreneurship in Asia and the Pacific: Case Studies from the Asian Development Bank and The Asia Foundation
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-10-15)The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and The Asia Foundation prepared this report as a guide for governments, donors, development partners, investors, nongovernment organizations, and other stakeholders on how to support women’s entrepreneurship in Asia ... -
Public–Private Partnership Systems in the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-10-15)Infrastructure plays a critical role in boosting the economy’s overall productivity and development toward improving the quality of life. Public–private partnership (PPP) is considered as one of the key modalities for sustainable infrastructure ... -
Do Local Currency Bond Markets Enhance Financial Stability?
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-10-15)It is widely believed that local currency bond markets (LCBMs) can promote financial stability in developing countries. For instance, they can help mitigate the currency and maturity mismatch that contributed to the outbreak of the Asian financial ... -
Overview of Financial Inclusion, Regulation, Financial Literacy, and Education in Central Asia and South Caucasus
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-10-15)Financial inclusion and financial literacy are receiving increasing attention for their potential to contribute to economic and financial development while fostering more inclusive growth and greater income equality. In general, the progress of financial ... -
PHARMAC economic analysis and “savings” claims
(New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, 2018-10-15)PHARMAC frequently claims that it achieves savings through its negotiations practices and approvals process for new medicines. In the 2017 financial year, PHARMAC claims to have achieved $52 million in savings for New Zealand. PHARMAC further claims ... -
Role of Bank Lending in Financing Green Projects: A Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Approach
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-10-15)This paper develops an environmental dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (E-DSGE) model with heterogeneous production sectors. In particular, the model comprises some low-carbon emission firms that finance their investments and production only through ... -
ADBI News 36: Of Taxes, Solar Lights, and the Upcoming T20 Summit
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-10-15)This ADBI newsletter is published periodically throughout the year to provide information on current events, seminars and summits, Job opportunities, blogs and news and current publications concerning growth and development in Asia and the Pacific.