This paper explores how governments in Asia and the Pacific can create a more enabling environment for tech start-ups.

Battling the devastating second wave of COVID-19, India sought urgent help from the distant US even though China expressed neighbourly…

The East Coast Rail Link (ECRL), upon completion, will provide a rail link between the more developed west coast and the less developed…

The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) is one of the most recent cooperation mechanisms established in the Mekong sub-region. Unlike other…

Despite its impressive economic growth in the past few decades, India is slow in adopting a task-by-task international division of…

This study investigates the role of digital infrastructure in shaping the global value chain (GVC) participation of Indian manufacturing…

This report is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 explains the background and context for this study. Chapter 2 provides an overview…

The report emphasises the importance of enhancing the efficiency of social protection programmes in Bangladesh to attain the SDGs,…

The publication includes chapter 1 outlining the operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in response to COVID-19 (2020–2021), and…

This paper empirically examines whether and how inward foreign direct investment (FDI) affected industrial productivity in Korea during…