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The main focus of the study was on assessing the impact bKash at the household level. A countrywide representative sample of households was chosen and…

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Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies

Studies, Bangladesh Institute of Development

Asia and the Pacific

28 Feb 2020

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) country operations business plan (COBP), 2020–2022, for Turkmenistan is, by and large, aligned with its country…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Asian Development Bank

Asia and the Pacific

28 Feb 2020

We create two novel datasets—the starting dates of Roll-On Roll-Off Terminal System (RRTS) service by route, and interprovincial land trade—to evaluate…

Asia and the Pacific

28 Feb 2020

The 20 February ASEAN-China foreign ministers meeting in Vientiane, Laos was a watershed in bringing together China and ASEAN member states to combat…

Asia and the Pacific

28 Feb 2020

Natural disasters bring tremendous destruction to small island economies in the South Pacific region. Foreign development aid, as an important source…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Chen, Hong|Singh, Baljeet

Asia and the Pacific

28 Feb 2020

Green investment vehicles are limited by multiple market failures, such as high transaction costs for certification and monitoring, and high minimum…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Schletz, Marco|Nassiry, Darius|Lee, Myung-Kyoon

Asia and the Pacific

28 Feb 2020

The paper investigates the role of network centrality in predicting borrowers’ and lenders’ behavior in peer-to-peer (P2P) lending. The empirical…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Chen, Xiao|Chong, Zhaohui|Giudici, Paolo|Huang, Bihong

Asia and the Pacific

28 Feb 2020

This paper examines the emergent role of sustainable finance and investment in Japan and scrutinizes the need for the Japanese financial system to…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Schumacher, Kim|Chenet, Hugues|Volz, Ulrich

Asia and the Pacific

28 Feb 2020

Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) are at the heart of the Paris Agreement. They outline the climate change adaptation and mitigation…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Amarjargal, Bayarmaa|Ebro, Hannah|Nylander, Johan|Duggal, Virender Kumar

Asia and the Pacific

28 Feb 2020

India needs to considerably accelerate its solar and wind energy capacity addition in order to meet its renewable energy (RE) capacity deployment…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Chawla, Kanika|Aggarwal, Manu|Dutt, Arjun

Asia and the Pacific

28 Feb 2020

Can economic growth continue without degrading the quality of the environment? This question has led to a lot of inconclusive findings among…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Nepal, Rabindra|Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad|Musibau, Hameed

Asia and the Pacific

28 Feb 2020

Despite the dominant role of hydropower in the global power generation mix and the popularity of studying the productivity impact of infrastructure…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Cheng, Dong|Shi, Xunpeng|Yu, Jian

Asia and the Pacific

28 Feb 2020