This report shows how efficient carbon pricing instruments can enable countries in Asia and the Pacific to accelerate their transition to affordable, secure low-carbon energy systems and help reach their ambitious climate targets.
This guidebook provides practical tips and resources for conducting quality socioeconomic surveys to enhance the effectiveness of urban development and water projects.
This publication reviews recent developments in East Asian local currency bond markets against a backdrop of deteriorating global financial conditions and provides an assessment of the outlook, risks, and policy options.
This report explains how rising climate and disaster risks can increase the vulnerability of Asia and the Pacific's urban poor and how engendering systemic change can strengthen their resilience.
This book explains how rapid digitalization during COVID-19 has accelerated the growth of digital services trade in Asia and the Pacific, and provides analysis on the opportunities, challenges, and associated risks.
These latest reports focus on Central and West Asia. Volume I reviews the financial and nonfinancial conditions of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) at country and regional level. While Volume II shows how the Russian invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions are affecting MSMEs and suggests policy responses to mitigate the impact.
This report analyzes how Islamic finance can be scaled up to help build urgently-needed climate-resilient infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific and ensure its post-COVID-19 recovery is green, sustainable, and inclusive.
This report lays out key governance challenges in the management of fiscal risks and contingent liabilities in Asia and the Pacific from public investments in public–private partnerships and state-owned enterprises.
This publication analyzes interest in green bonds in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations region to help guide development of sustainable bond markets.
This report shows how taking a gender-responsive approach to procurement that centers on buying from women-owned businesses can mainstream gender into trade to build more sustainable markets for women entrepreneurs in Asia and the Pacific.
