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Corporate Governance Challenges and Opportunities in Asia

20 November 2017
Good corporate governance strengthens the rule of law, facilitates further domestic and foreign investment, and facilitates sustainable and inclusive development. By transforming corporate governance challenges into opportunities for stakeholder collaboration and cooperation, they can serve as…

Corporate Governance Challenges and Opportunities in Asia

20 November 2017
Corporate governance, and not just the strength of the balance sheet, is currently considered as an established investment criterion. Good corporate governance has become equally important in both public and private sectors. Among the corporate governance challenges that were identified across the…

Digital Finance Balancing Regulation and Policies

9 November 2017
AFI write-up on keynote session taken from AFI website.

Knowledge Brochure Series Issue 4 Smart Water Supply

21 September 2017
This report provides a technical summary of the content and lessons learned form a two-day conference (21-22 September, 2017) in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, jointly organized and facilitated by ADB and G-Best Water Resources Centre, Korea. The final workshop agenda, including each speaker, their…

Digital Strategies for Development Forum 2017

8 September 2017
Discover how digital technologies can help developing countries to leapfrog over traditional development pathways. The Digital Strategies for Development Forum 2017 focused on "ICT in Education and Smart Cities" as one of the current hot ICT development issues. This report provides a summary of the…

Study Tour to the Agricultural Markets 2017

1 September 2017
The Asian Development Bank and Mercasa have been working to build the capacity of government officials in selected developing member countries (Kazakhstan, Nepal, Uzbekistan, and Viet Nam) on the development, operation, and management of wholesale markets. This report shares full details of the…

Supporting Nepals School Sector Development Plan The Role of ICT

31 August 2017
Nepal has been heavily investing in ICTs to enable more Nepalese access to primary and basic education. Read the results of a workshop on ADB's Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific.

Handout Negotiating Strategic Change

29 August 2017
‘Negotiating Strategic Change’ is an approach for building capacity of leaders, reformers, change agents to proactively engage multi-stakeholder groups in confronting constraints to collective action through the use of an integrated methodology: the discipline of strategic communication and the…

IND Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas Act

29 August 2017
An Act to provide for the extension of the provisions of Part IX of the Constitution relating to the Panchayats to the Scheduled Areas.

Using ICT for Development to Engage Stakeholders

31 July 2017
Building ways to provide feedback when crowdsourcing data can lead to improvements in underlying applications or surveys; stakeholders are shifted from just users of information to creators of relevant content and technology. This report, through selected case presentations, shares key findings on…