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State Registry Agency of Armenia: Improving Business Registration and Information Services

1 August 2016
Starting a business in Armenia in the late 2000s was a complicated process. Businessmen needed to go through a seven- to nine-step process that would take about 14 to 19 days to finish. It was no surprise that in terms of ease of doing business, Armenia ranked 82nd out of 125 countries in the…

Plug and Play: Our Story

8 June 2016
The Plug and Play Tech Center, a Silicon Valley-based technology startup accelerator, has actively funded 400+ companies since 2000. It provides pre-seed and seed stage investments ranging from $20K to $500K. The Plug and Play ecosystem consists of mentorship, logistical support, networking,…

Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems for Smart Cities

26 May 2016
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are necessary in ensuring safe and efficient transport networks. The current ITS, however, tend to focus on data collection and technology and generally miss out the need to incorporate the welfare of the three crucial components: infrastructure, vehicles, and…

Sustainable Urban Development: Integrating across Sectors

23 May 2016
Ramola Naik-Singru discusses how to integrate sustainable urban development across sectors

Video - Session 6 - Alternative Financing Schemes and Business Models

12 April 2016
This video covers Session 6 of the conference entitled “Alternative Financing Schemes and Business Models.” It draws lessons from a solar home program implemented in Bangladesh that demonstrates how business models can address inclusive energy challenges. It also shows how private sector…

Solar Programs of the Infrastructure Development Company Limited

12 April 2016
Bangladesh’s Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL), in this presentation, features the solar home system program and solar mini-grid project as its renewable energy initiatives. ICDOL promotes the use of alternative energy sources by ensuring the financial and economic sustainability…

Hippocampus

5 April 2016
Hippocampus Learning Centers (HLC) is a company that pioneered an affordable supplementary education offering kindergarten and after-school programs for rural kids 3 to 11 years of age in India’s State of Karnataka. Using the pooled experiences of its Founder, Board of Directors, and staff in early…

Training the Hippo: Communication and the Education of India’s Rural Kids

5 April 2016
In providing equity investments to social enterprises with sound business models such as Hippocampus Leaning Centers (HLC), ADB’s experience has shown that there is a need to intensify communication approaches to sustain the delicate balance between commercial sustainability and affordability, and…

Green Cities and GrEEEn Leaders: Viet Nam Stakeholders and Nguyen Van Cao

1 April 2016
Viet Nam's cities are going green as local leaders adopt the Green Cities approach. Learn more from this case study. Through ADB's Secondary Cities Development Program, Viet Nam is improving basic urban infrastructure in Buon Ma Thuot in the central highland region and the coastal cities of Ha Tinh…

The Greening of a City: Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project

31 March 2016
With the ultimate goal of making Seoul a great city, then-mayor Lee Myung-bak made Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project—the most expensive river restoration to be undertaken in the world—a centerpiece of his administration in 2002. Not only was the project extremely expensive, but the massive scope…