This publication analyzes the risks of digital transformation and shows how context-aware and integrated risk management can advance the digitally…

This publication introduces the Global Integration Index as a tool to explore how global and regional integration affect development outcomes.

ADB's South Asia Department (SARD) conducted a study to assess the status and responses to the needs of disadvantaged groups in its member…

This guidance note provides an overview of methods for evaluating the gender equality and social inclusion impacts of ADB programs and projects in…

In the Asia and Pacific region, accessing clean water and sanitation is a constant challenge for residents of informal settlements. Informal service…

This guidance note aims to enhance the quality of poverty and social analysis for the design of country partnership strategies and programs in South…

This report assesses how to finance an extensive overhaul of transport infrastructure in the BIMSTEC subregion, considers the challenges of public and…

This brief looks at how multilateral development banks (MDBs) can help strengthen the life-science industry in the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC)…

This publication shares lessons from performance-based road maintenance contracts implemented in Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia,…

This manual provides an overview of climate-driven stressors relevant to transport infrastructure in Central Asia and explores adaptation strategies.…

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change incorporated an ambitious model intercomparison effort that compiled…

Examining how the livelihoods, health, and well-being of women in Central and West Asia were disproportionately affected by the pandemic, this report…