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27 January 2025
This report tracks tax revenue collection in 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific and highlights opportunities for revenue bodies to tighten governance, accountability, and data collection to help strengthen their vital tax systems.
Drawing on data from the International Survey on Revenue…
1 August 2024
This handbook provides practical guidance for policymakers, decision-takers, and other practitioners who need to engage with the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.
15 March 2024
When governance fails, the consequences can derail entire nations from their development paths. How can development professionals protect projects from corruption? Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journalist Bradley’s Hope, answers.
17 January 2024
Tax systems are designed to collect revenues to finance public expenditures in the most efficient manner. Since taxes constitute a price on economic activity, the tax structure should aim to collect taxes fairly and efficiently. In addition to raising revenues for financing public expenditures,…
10 January 2024
Policymakers in the Asia and the Pacific have powerful tools available to identify funding gaps, optimize resource allocation, and enhance resilience against the looming fiscal challenges of climate change.
28 December 2023
Former Undersecretary General for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Heidi Mendoza shares why audit and integrity controls matter in crisis response projects. She also presents key tools and approaches to keep development projects corruption-free.
This is part of iACT, iTalk, ADB’s…
26 December 2023
HAND Social Enterprise and SIAM Lab cofounder Dr. Torplus Yomnak shows how open data and citizen participation can be a force for good governance and anticorruption. Dr. Yomnak received the United States State Department’s 2021 Anti-Corruption award for his work on anticorruption policy and…
17 May 2023
Climate change exposes economies to physical and transition risks to the soundness of their financial institutions and the stability of their overall financial systems. Governments, financial markets, and financial institutions need financial resources, instruments, and skills to forestall these…
15 March 2023
Knowing the full range of benefits and values offered by different wetland ecosystem services is important in making decisions, not just for the purpose of conservation but also in determining best options for uplifting the lives of households and communities. Several cases had been shared here,…
9 December 2022
Torplus Yomnak's session during the International Anticorruption Day 2022 celebration.