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New Zealand’s Industry Training and Apprenticeship System: a Public-Private Partnership in Action

1 December 2015

Industry training is funded as an industry-government partnership in New Zealand, with government funding contingent on an industry cash contribution of at least 30 percent. Maintaining this level of industry contribution is a critical test of support for industry training organizations and to…

Bangladesh Skills for Employment Investment Program: Opportunity to Transform the Skills Sector

1 December 2015

With unmet training needs owing to a large gap in training capacity, Bangladesh faces a shortage in skills supply resulting to low productivity and income. Introducing performance-based financing, the Skills for Employment Investment Project in Bangladesh involved industry associations in priority…

The Pay-as-You-Go Off-Grid Project in India: Addressing Energy Poverty One House at a Time

1 October 2015

Many rural villages in India are energy poor, with 289 million people lacking access to electricity while 80 million remain underserved. To quickly fill the access gap, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) initiated an equity investment that allowed customers to buy energy credits in “small packages”.…

A Smarter Future: Skills, Education, and Growth in Asia - Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2015 Special Chapter

1 October 2015

Asia has made substantial progress in improving educational attainment. Nevertheless, there remain significant shortfalls in the quantity and quality of education. To raise quality will require commitment to making evidence based policy decisions and accountability, financial efficiency that…

Customizing the Sustainable Development Goals: What Will It Take?

27 August 2015

While the similarities of international development goals help provide comparisons across countries, there is a need for decentralized tracking as a result of differentiated challenges. The question is whether to localize or to customize these goals in the context of Asia and the Pacific.

Proof in: Poverty Can End. What are We Waiting for?

18 June 2015

Can we really end poverty? A model for eradicating extreme poverty developed by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee offers proof. According to the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee’s graduation model, addressing poverty reduction entails looking beyond microfinance. Extreme poverty…

Innovations for Strengthening Disaster Resilience

19 May 2015

Disasters continue to disrupt and cause significant loss of lives in the developing member countries of ADB with maximum impacts felt by the poorest members of society. Learn how ADB is addressing the challenge of disaster-related losses through partnerships and technologies.