Development economics and emerging economies Books

This report examines ADB’s Unlocking Innovation for Development technical assistance project and highlights lessons learned from activities and pilot projects it has funded.Under the project, ADB aims to strengthen the capacity of its developing...

These guidelines explain the ASEAN+3 Multi-Currency Bond Issuance Framework (AMBIF) and relate AMBIF Elements to the corresponding features of the professional Philippines bond market.The guidelines highlight market characteristics that are significant...

This study on Sri Lanka assesses the skills deficit in the food and beverages sector and the electronics and electricals sector.Persistent skills shortages have constrained new investments and economic growth in Sri Lanka. This study recommends...

This review of the Clean Energy Program draws from hundreds of projects approved by ADB in 2008–2018, according to the indicators set out in the 2009 Energy Policy.A decade after the Clean Energy Program took form, the review determines how far the...

This report presents case studies that highlight how ADB's teams are working together to design innovative urban projects across the Asia and Pacific region that leverage its value-added services and support sustainable economic growth. Based on...

This publication examines innovative finance mechanisms for government recovery strategies that can incentivize green infrastructure investment in developing Asia and support the fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.COVID-19 has seen...

This edition of Private Sector Operations—Report on Development Effectiveness reports on the performance of active projects of ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department in terms of their achievement of agreed targets and expected...

This issue of the Asia Bond Monitor reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic and deepening global economic uncertainty are weighing heavily on local currency bond markets of emerging East Asian economies.Apart from emerging East Asia, government bond yields...

The Multihazard Risk Atlas of Maldives is composed of Geography-Volume I, Climate and Geophysical Hazards-Volume II, Economy and Demographics-Volume III, Biodiversity-Volume IV, and Summary-Volume V. This atlas provides spatial information about Maldives...

This publication provides information on revenue bodies in Asia and the Pacific to support efforts of developing member countries to strengthen their tax administration systems.Improved tax systems can help countries in the region generate the resources...

We are concerned about too many human workers being replaced by machines. We should be. The harm we face goes far beyond the trauma faced by individuals who have lost their jobs to machines over past centuries. We are moving deeper into a condition of...

"...takes the lid off the difficult career questions we all face, and provides pointed advice for finding healthy, empowering work."-Steve Woodruff, Author, Clarity WinsThe Great Resignation, the Great Reshuffling, and Quiet Quitting-clearly something is...

Stop Depending On The Grocery Store And Grow Your Food Instead - Even In A Tiny Backyard!Did you know that you could grow up to 10,000 pounds of food on a small quarter-acre lot?Now pause and think for a moment.You're spending at least 10% of your...

This book highlights the principles and practices that lead to sustainable and positive leadership within SME.Most organizations would say that they are interested in becoming more effective and efficient-which is almost impossible without competent...

The people of the Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea have long held visions of a prosperous new future, often referred to by local leaders as the 'Lihir Destiny'. When large-scale gold mining activities commenced on the main island of Lihir in 1995, many...

Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) was publicly launched as a think tank in March 2011 and took up the task of following a transdisciplinary approach to the research generated within the organisation. The projects initiated by MISTRA...

Patronage Politics Divides Us: A Study of Poverty, Patronage and Inequality in South Africa explores the relationship between patronage, poverty, and inequality with a particular focus on its impact on the conduct of local politics. The overall aim of...

Sarah Arnot has established one of the world’s most comprehensive leadership assessment and executive development programmes. For the past 25 years she’s helped hundreds of CEOs and executive leaders to significantly improve their skills,...

This book utilises multiple contemporary strategy perspectives and practices to give leaders and strategy practitioner’s deep insights about the dynamics and options available in developing good and robust strategies.  The core of the book is...

From girls’ education awareness and action, to attitudes towards violence against children, communication for development (C4D) is a critical tool for sharing knowledge and creating social change. Evaluating how effective such communication has...

Engineering in Emergencies is a hugely successful practical handbook for all relief workers involved in giving humanitarian assistance. It provides the information needed to implement an effective engineering response in the aftermath of an emergency.

This book describes a practical solution to the lack of basic sanitation facilities in the form of a 'Sanplat': a specially designed concrete platform which can be installed easily in rural latrines to improve sanitation and safety. It has footrests to...

Starting with only an anvil and a few basic tools, almost all the tools needed by a blacksmith can be made from commonly found materials. With clear instructions this book gives step by step instructions on basic blacksmithing.

A case study about the work of IT IS and Sarvodaya, a Sri Lankan development charity, in establishing the local production of educational pre-school toys. Full colour photographs illustrate the production process and end results.

Technical co-operation involving northern experts transferring expertise to the south has not always worked. In fact it has sometimes been counter-productive, fostering a dependency on outside help rather than creating a genuine indigenous capability...

This is a guide to the use of induction motors for electricity generation in remote locations. It is written as a practical handbook for engineers and technicians involved in designing and installing small water-power schemes for isolated houses and...

This analysis of slash/mulch practices from around the world shows that they have generally shortened the necessary fallow periods and have restored degraded soils, thus increasing or stabilizing yields; allowing small-scale, resource-poor farmers to...

This book is a landmark in showing how industrial-organizational psychology and related fields contribute to environmental sustainability in organizations.  Industrial-organizational psychology embraces a scientist/practitioner model: evidence-based...

Botswana's rapid transition between 1965 and 2016 from one of the poorest countries in the world to one rated as middle income has been extraordinary. Fifty years of change has seen the widespread disappearance of coal-fired locomotives and...

Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader is a comprehensive anthropological overview of industrialisation in both Western and non-Western societies. Based on contemporary and historical ethnographic material, the book unpacks the 'world of...

This timely book tackles the critical and controversial issue of how people are labelled and categorized, and how their problems are framed and dealt with by a variety of actors, including development policy makers, practitioners and researchers...

Management of local resources has a greater chance of a sustainable outcome when there is partnership between local people and external agencies, and agendas relevant to their aspirations and circumstances. Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable...

This catalogue has been prepared to help houseowners in low-income urban communities choose an appropriate low-cost toilet option. It is designed to be used by toilet builders or other NGO or government fieldworkers who can support houseowners in their...

This collection covers a wide range of contemporary toilet designs along with a valuable list of website links where additional information about each design can be sought.

Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa's former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink)...

For the people of Timor-Leste, independence promised a fundamental transformation from foreign occupation to self-rule, from brutality to respect for basic rights, and from poverty to prosperity. In the eyes of the country's political leaders, revenue...

Green leader empower others.This guide helps you to boost your green leadership skills and become part of the sustainability movement to contribute to a healthier environment.This book helps you unlock the hidden sustainability knowledge and expertise...

Il libro ""Il Delinquente Nei Promessi Sposi: Ricerche D'Antropologia Criminale E Di Critica Scientifica (1899)"" di Leggiardi-Laura ����� una raccolta di studi sull'antropologia criminale e la critica scientifica. L'autore esplora le cause della...

""Die Hebung der Arbeitenden Klassen durch Genossenschaften und Volksbanken"" ist ein Buch des deutschen Sozialreformers Max Wirth aus dem Jahr 1865. In dem Werk setzt sich Wirth mit der Frage auseinander, wie die Arbeitenden Klassen durch die...

""�����l�����ments d'�����conomie politique pure: ou th�����orie de la richesse sociale"" est un livre �����crit par L�����on Walras en 1874. Ce livre est consid�����r����� comme l'un des ouvrages les plus importants de l'�����conomie politique. Walras y...

Roepke's The Social Crisis of Our Time is a series of blasts against the "malformations" of economics: the Nazi and Communist forms of collectivism both come in for severe criticism

Almost a half century has passed since the inception of the People's Republic cf China

This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. When the links in the chain represent development projects, if individual projects fail to achieve their purpose, the development program's effectiveness is compromised. When the chain's links are strong and...

Southern-Led Development Finance examines some of the innovative new south-south financial arrangements and institutions that have emerged in recent years, as countries from the Global South seek to transform their economies and to shield themselves from...

This book contains the proceeding of the conferences on Disasters and the Small Dwelling, held at Oxford in September 1990. The 26 papers cover recent experiences of post-disaster shelter and housing provision, review what has been achieved, what needs...