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The Sri Lankan Economy

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The Sri Lankan Economy

This is a pivotal period in Sri Lanka's economic development. The end of conflict opens a door for accelerated economic growth and poverty reduction. Reform is needed to regain momentum because fiscal imbalances and rising public debt could jeopardize macroeconomic stability. The economy would benefit from significant trade and commercial policy reform. The labor market suffers from sluggish growth of formal sector employment and from skills mismatches, which can be addressed by changes in...

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Tool Kit Guide for Rapid Economic A...

Brian H. Roberts

Tool Kit Guide for Rapid Economic Assessment, Planning, and Development of Cities in Asia

This tool kit provides a framework and tools for conducting rapid assessments to prepare city economic development plans in Asian cities. An analytical framework guides the reader through a series of steps for three analytical and assessment processes. These are designed to prepare economic profiles; evaluate future economic development options and pathways; and prepare strategies, action plans, and prioritize investment activities in support of city economic development. The steps in each...

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Brian H. Roberts

Impact Evaluation of Development In...

Howard White

Impact Evaluation of Development Interventions

Impact evaluation is an empirical approach to estimating the causal effects of interventions, in terms of both magnitude and statistical significance. Expanded use of impact evaluation techniques is critical to rigorously derive knowledge from development operations and for development investments and policies to become more evidence-based and effective. To help backstop more use of impact evaluation approaches, this book introduces core concepts, methods, and considerations for planning,...

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Howard White

Building Capacity through Participa...

Kevin Balm

Building Capacity through Participation

For years, Nauru, a small Pacific island nation (population 10,000), benefited from the considerable wealth generated from its only major natural resource, phosphate. However, when that resource was almost exhausted and national assets held under the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust had been reduced to relatively minor holdings, the Government of Nauru sought and received assistance from the Asian Development Bank and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) to prepare a...

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Kevin Balm

Lose to Gain

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Lose to Gain

A crucial issue that confronts development in South Asia is how to build a better life for people displaced by infrastructure development projects. This book comprises recent displacement and resettlement case studies conducted by eight anthropologists in South Asia. Each contributor wrote around the key theme of the book: Is involuntary resettlement a development opportunity for those displaced by development interventions? In this book, «resettlement» carries a broader meaning to include...

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Social Protection for Informal Work...

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Social Protection for Informal Workers in Asia

This publication examines the need to expand social protection coverage of the informal sector to support working age productivity, reduce vulnerability, and improve economic opportunity. Case studies from Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand offer suggestions to close social protection gaps and recommend policy solutions to create equitable and inclusive social protection programs for informal workers.

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Inclusive Green Growth Index

Sonia Chand Sandhu

Inclusive Green Growth Index

This publication launches the Inclusive Green Growth Index, a new comprehensive metric that captures the key dimensions of economic growth, social equity, and environmental sustainability. The index's 28 performance indicators cover various aspects of growth and policy outcomes in areas where higher investment will advance better quality of growth and living standards. Designed as an easy-to-use guide for policy makers and stakeholders in development, the Inclusive Green Growth Index builds...

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Sonia Chand Sandhu

Methodology for Impact Assessment o...

Shintaro Hamanaka

Methodology for Impact Assessment of Free Trade Agreements

This publication displays the menu for choice of available methods to evaluate the impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). It caters mainly to policy makers from developing countries and aims to equip them with some economic knowledge and techniques that will enable them to conduct their own economic evaluation studies on existing or future FTAs, or to critically re-examine the results of impact assessment studies conducted by others, at the very least.

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Shintaro Hamanaka

Kazakhstan: Accelerating Economic D...

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Kazakhstan: Accelerating Economic Diversification

Kazakhstan has the potential to become an economic leader in Central Asia. Relying on oil and gas alone, however, will not produce the long-run level of growth needed to meet this potential. Reforms geared to improve the business climate, enhance competitiveness, and increase private sector participation are essential. This book examines reforms to accelerate economic diversification in the country. This involves not only modernizing and using public resources in agriculture more efficiently to...

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Poverty and Sustainable Development...

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Poverty and Sustainable Development in Asia

This joint publication from the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank Institute features selected papers from the September 2009 conference on the social and environmental impact of the global economic crisis on Asia and the Pacific, especially on the poor and vulnerable. The publication is designed with the needs of policy makers in mind, utilizing field, country, and thematic background studies to cover a large number of countries and cases. This publication suggests that the...

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Kyrgyz Republic: Improving Growth P...

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Kyrgyz Republic: Improving Growth Potential

The Kyrgyz Republic has overcome some complex challenges to now have one of the most open economies in Central Asia. The country has improved its per capita income and living standards and is on the threshold of becoming a lower-middle-income economy. Looking ahead, the main challenge for the Kyrgyz Republic is to build on these successes to stimulate stronger, more broad-based economic growth. This book identifies the economic and governance reforms needed within key sectors to drive this...

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Use of Remote Sensing to Estimate P...

Lea Rotairo

Use of Remote Sensing to Estimate Paddy Area and Production

A substantial portion of the world's rice is produced and consumed in the Asia and Pacific region. As much of the region's population depends on rice farming for consumption and livelihood, the demand for good quality statistics remains essential for effective policy formulation. Recent advances in remote sensing serve as a viable alternative to traditional methods of compiling agricultural statistics by responding to the emerging data requirements and overall needs of modern...

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Lea Rotairo

Third ASEAN Chief Justices' Roundta...

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Third ASEAN Chief Justices' Roundtable on Environment

From 15-18 November 2013, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chief justices and their designees convened in Bangkok, Thailand for their third roundtable on environment with the theme «ASEAN's Environmental Challenges and Legal Responses.» Distinguished speakers and the judicial participants shared their knowledge and experiences in dealing with the region's environmental challenges, and the various means and innovations they have implemented to effectively address these...

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Attaining Sustainable Energy Access...

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Attaining Sustainable Energy Access for All

The energy policy of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) focuses on maximizing energy access, promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy, and promoting improved governance and capacity in the energy sector to strengthen the capacity of developing member countries to meet critical energy needs. This publication seeks to further ADB's efforts to promote knowledge sharing among stakeholders and help identify the policy, regulatory, and legal barriers to energy access; design and implement...

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Asia’s Fiscal Challenge

Sri Wening Handayani

Asia’s Fiscal Challenge

Developing countries in Asia have expanded their social protection programs. One of the key challenges is creating sustainable financing–considered the bedrock for success of the social protection agendas of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda and Strategy 2030 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This book focuses on the analysis of fiscal requirements to achieve the social protection agenda of the SDGs and explore options to close the gaps in population coverage and...

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Sri Wening Handayani

Realizing the Potential of Public–P...

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Realizing the Potential of Public–Private Partnerships to Advance Asia's Infrastructure Development

This publication highlights how public–private partnerships (PPPs) can be effective to meet Asia's growing infrastructure needs. It shows how governments and their development partners can use PPPs to promote more inclusive and sustainable growth. The study finds that successful PPP projects are predicated on well-designed contracts, a stable economy, good governance and sound regulations, and a high level of institutional capacity to handle PPPs. It is the result of a collaboration between...

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The Art of War (Translated with com...

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The Art of War (Translated with commentary and an introduction by Lionel Giles)

Although there are many classic treatises on the subject, it may be said that no greater work on the subject of military theory exists than Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War.” It is certainly one of the oldest known books on the subject having been written some 2500 years ago. Sun Tzu, a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher lived in the second half of the 6th century BC and considered war as a necessary evil that if possible is better to be avoided. In his work, Sun Tzu focused heavily...

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The Hopes and Dreams of Libby Quinn

Freya Kennedy

The Hopes and Dreams of Libby Quinn

A gorgeous new romantic comedy about taking chances and realising your dreams. Libby Quinn is sick and tired of being sensible. After years of slogging her guts out for nothing at a PR company, she finds herself redundant and about to plough every last penny of her savings into refurbishing a ramshackle shop and making her dream of owning her own bookshop become a reality.She hopes opening 'Once Upon A Book' on Ivy Lane will be the perfect tribute to her beloved grandfather who...

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Freya Kennedy

The Administrative Threat

Philip Hamburger

The Administrative Threat

Government agencies regulate Americans in the full range of their lives, including their political participation, their economic endeavors, and their personal conduct. Administrative power has thus become pervasively intrusive. But is this power constitutional? A similar sort of power was once used by English kings, and this book shows that the similarity is not a coincidence. In fact, administrative power revives absolutism. On this foundation, the book explains how administrative power denies...

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Philip Hamburger

What Doomed Detroit

Kevin D. Williamson

What Doomed Detroit

Many cities have struggled with the decline of key industries, from Philadelphia’s shipyards to New York’s textile industry, but Detroitwhich is now in bankruptcyis both a victim of the decline of the Michigan automobile industry and a cause of it. A city with a history of civil disorderit is the only American city occupied on three separate occasions by federal troopsits poisonous blend of race-based politics and union domination has...

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Kevin D. Williamson

Against the Obamanet

Brian C. Anderson

Against the Obamanet

The Internet is a platform of ceaseless innovation that has transformed our lives in a remarkably short time. And the United States has led that revolution: of the 15 largest websites in the world, 10 are American. But all that is now under threat. In February 2015, the Federal Communications Commission imposed extensive regulatory controls on this vibrant digital universe in an effort to mandate network neutrality.”In this Broadside, Brian C. Anderson explains how the...

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Brian C. Anderson

Obama's Education Takeover

Lance T Izumi

Obama's Education Takeover

President Obama has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented centralization of education policy under the guise of promoting educational innovation, accountability, and improved student achievement. In reality, Obama’s new national standards, curricula, and testing  in addition to huge spending commitments by the federal government ¬ shift the policymaking power from individuals and communities to the federal bureaucracy.In this Broadside, Lance Izumi...

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Lance T Izumi

Obama's Radical Transformation of A...

Joshua Muravchik

Obama's Radical Transformation of America: Year One

In only one year, Obama has saddled Americans with a skyrocketing deficit that will leave future generations deeply in debt; a health-care plan that prescribes a cure worse than the illness; catastrophically expensive environmental schemes; and a foreign policy that appeases enemies and punishes friends.In this frank and insightful Broadside, Joshua Muravchikanalyzes these and Obama’s other misguided efforts to fundamentally transform” America during his first year...

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Joshua Muravchik

How the Obama Administration has Po...

Andrew C McCarthy

How the Obama Administration has Politicized Justice

With the Obama Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder’s direction, Americans are learning what really happens when law-enforcement power is co-opted by politics.In this eye-popping Broadside, Andrew C. McCarthy shows that the biggest beneficiaries have been jihadists. For the past eight years, a group of lawyers volunteered their services to America’s enemies. Now, the Justice Department is rife with some of those same lawyers as it enhances due process for...

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Andrew C McCarthy

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