ADBI Books

All ADBI publications are freely available electronically. You can download, print, or view online. Our research department produces books which can be download here: http://www.adbi.org/publications.books/

Infrastructure for a Seamless Asia

This ADB and ADBI flagship study analyzes the major challenges in developing regional infrastructure, particularly transport and energy-both hard and soft infrastructure-through fostering...

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Decade of Developments: Proceedings of ADBI's Annual Conference 2007

This volume revisits development issues in Asia and the Pacific highlighted by the Asian Development Bank Institute over the ten years from 1997 to 2007. It answers the key questions of (...

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Poverty and Sustainable Development in Asia: Impacts and Responses to the Glo...

This joint ADB and ADBI book features selected papers from a conference on the social and environmental impact of the global economic crisis on Asia and the Pacific, especially on the poo...

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Trade Facilitation and Regional Cooperation in Asia

This book looks at how regional trade facilitation, including investment in infrastructure, promotes and supports trade growth. While the findings focus on Asia, they have relevance for p...

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Asia's Contribution to Global Economic Development and Stability: Proceedings...

Based on papers presented at ADBI's 11th annual conference in 2008, this volume addresses three critical issues for Asia if the region is to successfully balance greater global engagement...

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Infrastructure’s Role in Lowering Asia’s Trade Costs

This book combines thematic and country studies, while breaking new ground in quantifying infrastructure's impact on Asia's trade costs. The book includes case studies of rapid growth and...

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Promoting Financial Inclusion Through Innovative Policies

The Promoting Financial Inclusion workshop provided a learning and knowledge-sharing platform among policymakers to enhance their capacity to develop an innovative and enabling policy env...

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Effects of Social Policy on Domestic Demand

ADBI's 12th Annual Conference pursued the objective of formulating appropriate long-term responses to the global financial crisis, focusing on social policies and their impact on domestic...

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The Asian Tsunami: Aid and Reconstruction After a Disaster

The death toll following the 2004 Asian tsunami—close to 230,000 people—was stunning. The devastation that the tsunami caused highlights the need to strengthen approaches to disaster risk...

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Managing Capital Flows - The Search for a Framework

This book provides analyses that can help policymakers develop a framework for managing capital flows that is consistent with prudent macroeconomic and financial sector stability. While ...

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Asia's Free Trade Agreements: How is Business Responding?

The spread of Asia's free trade agreements (FTAs) has sparked an important debate on the impact of such agreements on business activity. This pioneering study uses new evidence from surv...

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Asia and Policymaking for the Global Economy

Eminent international economists examine the increased influence of Asian nations in the governance of global economic affairs, from the changing role of the G20 to the reform of relevant...

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Financial Market Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets

In this timely volume Masahiro Kawai, Eswar Prasad, and their contributors offer a systematic overview of recent developments in—and the latest thinking about—regulatory frameworks in bot...

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Asia and Policymaking for the Global Economy - Highlights version

As the global economy consolidates its recovery, leaving behind the worst recession in almost a century, emerging Asia leads the pack with growth projected at 9.6% for the People's Republ...

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The Global Financial Crisis, Future of the Dollar, and the Choice for Asia

This book contains papers delivered at the conference "The Global Financial Crisis, Future of the Dollar, and the Choice of Asia" held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on 1 June 2009. It also...

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