My surprising discovery about women’s opportunities in Armenia
Underserved businesses run by women in Armenia need help to create a reliable client base and convince skeptical banks that their enterprises are a good investment.
Cost-sharing can be the solution for small-town water supply services
There is clear potential for replication and scaling up this model across developing Asia.
Think bigger on small sanitation projects to reach the urban poor
Big off-site urban sanitation operations should be complemented with smaller sanitation schemes in poor neighborhoods.
Viet Nam must escape low productivity, low value-add trap to industrialize
In its quest to become an industrialized nation, Viet Nam must redouble efforts to improve the skills of the labor force and cultivate high-technology, high value-add industries.
5 ways interventions can support environmentally sustainable growth
Recent evaluation shows these elements are crucial to supporting economic growth and eradicating poverty without further harming the environment.
Is infrastructure investment the answer to sluggish economic growth?
Yes – but only if the focus is on quality and impact, and not on the quantity and volume of investment.
Making a bigger difference in the poorest and most vulnerable countries
ADB reforms and new resources provide an opportunity to make incremental progress on development work in Asia’s low-income countries.
Top 5 surprising independent evaluation results
Although evaluation findings often confirm strongly held and highly intuitive views in areas like project design, sometimes there are unexpected results.
Infrastructure and safeguards
As multilateral development banks gear up to fill serious gaps in infrastructure in Asia, attention also focuses on safeguards, which should be a top concern for established lenders such as the World Bank and ADB as well as new players like the AIIB.
Making private sector investments deliver development impacts
For development institutions, private sector investments offer plenty of potential for promoting inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth at a profit. But how successful are they in achieving actual development gains?