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Why Care about Quality of Care? The Case of Lao PDR’s Health System

12 March 2018
Discover how Lao PDR is improving quality of care to achieve better health outcomes. As countries in the Asia-Pacific region strive to achieve universal health coverage, removing financial barriers to health care is fundamental yet not sufficient. Utilization of health services and the achievement…

Sustainability Outlook of Mongolia

22 February 2018
This presentation shared the sequence of activities involved in producing a national sustainability outlook and emphasized the importance of visioning, policy mapping, identifying leverage points, and quantitative and qualitative modeling, among others.

Inventory of Tools for Integrating Environment Related SDGs into National Development Plans

22 February 2018
This presentation presented the TA project’s draft inventory of tools for integrating the select environment-related goals and targets into national development policies, plans, and programs, and highlighted some of the tool-related findings from the regional stocktaking.

Sustainability Outlook of Mongolia (SOM): Process and Content

22 February 2018
This presentation discussed the process of developing Mongolia's Sustainability Outlook (SOM) and gave an overview of its contents.

Sustainable Asia: Lessons learned from 10 years of SCP implementation in Asia

22 February 2018
This presentation gave an overview of the SCP Centre and their experience in implementing their sustainable consumption and production program in Asia.

Poverty-Environment-Climate Mainstreaming Tools

22 February 2018
This presentation discussed the range of Poverty-Environment-Climate (PEC) mainstreaming tools and approaches that are available in Asia, as well as an overview of the Compendium on PEC Mainstreaming Tools, Experiences, and Results.

Property Tax Revenues

22 February 2018
Property taxes cover the recurrent and non-recurrent taxes on the use, ownership, or transfer of property, and are raised at different levels of government. In the Asian context, local governments raise revenues from recurrent taxes on immovable property; whereas taxes on wealth, inheritance, and…

Revenue Statistics in Asian and Pacific Countries

22 February 2018
The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s publication on revenue statistics is a data and iterative tool that policymakers can use to compare key indicators between countries. It provides no financial cost and minimal resource cost for countries to participate.

ADB's Capacity Support on Tax for Asia-Pacific Countries

22 February 2018
Learn about ADB’s capacity support on tax for countries in the Asia and Pacific region. ADB’s support for the development of tax capacity is based on the two main pillars of strengthening domestic resource mobilization and enhancing transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes.

How to Access ADB Support for Taxation Reforms

22 February 2018
To foster development impacts, ADB offers various types of financial products to the public sector as shared in this presentation. The presentation also features the types of services offered by ADB that are relevant to taxation reforms.