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Enhancing Transparency and Exchange of Information - Background to the Project and Progress

9 March 2016
Risks in tax avoidance and evasion are on the rise in Asia. Mobilization of domestic resources is needed to create better tax systems that is crucial for development. The Asian Development Bank provides technical assistance for the capacity development of tax administration in Asia.

Combating Tax Evasion: Building the Strategies, Organization, and Processes

9 March 2016
Projects of the Asian Development Bank focus on enhancing and exchanging information, and on practicing transparency to combat tax evasion and increase tax revenues. This presentation explains how the three components of strategy, policy and legislation, and administration fit together to meet the…

Sources of Great Recession: A Bayesian Approach of a Data Rich Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model with Time-Varying Volatility Shocks

8 March 2016
Kobe University Professor Shin-Ichi Nishiyama, then with Tohoku University, in his paper concluded that negative bank net worth shock affected the US economy before the downturn of corporate net worth. While troubled Asset Relief Program worked well for financial institutions, it has not been the…

An Assessment of the Implementation of Results-Based Management Frameworks in Selected Countries

4 February 2016
Failure of bureaucracies to identify appropriate output definitions and indicators, and a unifying outcomes classification framework has undermined the usefulness, integrity, and comprehensibility of agencies’ performance-based budget (PBB) and results-based budget management (RBBM) frameworks. PBB…

Growing Cities, Hungry Mouths, and Women Farmers: Why Participation Counts

22 January 2016
Multiple challenges such as limited recognition impede women’s participation in the agriculture sector. More can be achieved in irrigation when women farmers are encouraged to participate and reach their full potential in light of changing economic and social patterns, increasing populations, and…

Promoting Good Governance in Irrigation

22 January 2016
This document presents a broadened perspective of governance in irrigation. It discusses these three key aspects: (i) lessons learned and opportunities to strengthen institutional, policy, and legal frameworks to improve performance; (ii) changing rural dynamics and the feminization of agriculture…

Private Sector Participation in Irrigation Management

21 January 2016
Poor management operation and maintenance affects the water-energy-food nexus. An unsuccessful public irrigation management is the result of an unreliable and insufficient approach. A huge potential exists for the private sector to participate in and contribute to addressing the challenges of…

Securing Water and Food for the Future: Role of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage

20 January 2016
The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), in this presentation, discusses the global challenges for sustainable production. The concept of sustainable agricultural intensification is introduced. It also features ICID’s initiatives and programs in the field of sustainable…

Re-Defining Irrigation Modernization

20 January 2016
Irrigation modernization ought to focus on innovations that help produce more food with less water. It entails a continuous process of improving infrastructure, operations, and management to allow irrigation systems to operate at maximum capacity; and to enable farmers to optimize the productivity…

Can Irrigation Institutions Perform Better?

20 January 2016
Modernization addresses the need to constantly manage change with the environment, the systems, and the needs of water users. This presentation itemizes the key components of change, the constraints that prevent institutions from embracing change, and the tools needed to empower them.