Data, Statistics and Tools

DEVELOPMENT.ASIA

http://development.asia/

ADB's website for sharing practical development know-how, learning, and collaboration. Six online content types make it easier to create, share, and use knowledge from knowledge events, missions, projects, and studies. Online communities promote learning from other professionals, including DMC stakeholders.

ASIA-PACIFIC RESEARCH EXCHANGE or ARX

http://www.arx.cfa/

ARX is a user-driven community hub that gathers scholarly papers, research reports, articles and blogs, conference presentations and datasets from both practitioners and academics interested in capital markets and financial analysis.

K-LEARN

http://www.k-learn.org/

Materials on Asia-Pacific development from Asian Development Bank conferences, seminars, and trainings. k-learn is a collection of free, downloadable seminar and training materials on various development sectors and themes. It aims to make practical development knowledge readily available to development practitioners worldwide. k-learn’s resources stem from the learning events organized by ADB, particularly its in-house sector and thematic groups.

LESSONS DATABASE

https://www.evaluation-lessons.org/

This website is managed by the Independent Evaluation Department (IED) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), as part of its mandate to identify and communicate evaluation lessons for improving the development impact of policies, strategies, programs, and projects. The main feature of this site is the Lessons Database, which allows you to search significant lessons culled from ADB’s extensive operations as documented in evaluation reports and other official documents.

REGIONAL KNOWLEDGE SHARING INITIATIVE

http://www.rksi.org/

The ADB–PRC Regional Knowledge Sharing Initiative (RKSI) is a knowledge sharing platform focusing on the experiences of developing countries in the areas of poverty reduction, regional cooperation, urban development, and climate change and environment.

DATA VISUALIZATION TOOLS: ADB SOCIAL PROTECTION INDEX

http://spi.adb.org/spidmz/index.jsp

The Social Protection Index summarizes the extent of social protection in countries of Asia and the Pacific, giving the Asian Development Bank better quantitative and qualitative information on social protection activities and an internationally comparable database of social protection expenditures, coverage, distribution, and impact.

ADB STATISTICS FOR DYNAMIC POLICY MAKING

https://sdbs.adb.org/sdbs/index.jsp

The Statistical Database System is the Asian Development Bank’s central statistical database that stores macroeconomic and social data of its developing members. The annual data on national accounts, prices, government finance, trade, balance of payments, money and banking, external debt, population, labor force, and social indicators come from statistical contacts that are mostly national statistics offices and central banks of the developing members.

FRAMEWORK OF INCLUSIVE GROWTH INDICATORS: KEY INDICATORS FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

http://www.adb.org/figi/web/StatTrends.html

This statistical site provides 35 indicators as measures of income and nonincome dimensions of inclusive growth; the processes that improve access to opportunities, social inclusion, social safety nets; and good governance.

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL INDICATORS: ADB ASIA REGIONAL INTEGRATION CENTER

http://aric.adb.org/macroindicators

This page provides statistical data on external, real, and monetary sectors of 23 economies in Asia. Data are presented in either growth rate, index, or ratio.

INTEGRATION INDICATORS: ADB ASIA REGIONAL INTEGRATION CENTER

http://aric.adb.org/integrationindicators

The Integration Indicators Database is an interactive database that features a set of indicators to monitor progress on regional cooperation and integration. The database has 12 trade indicators, 8 foreign direct investment indicators, and 17 money and finance indicators.

ADB PROJECT DATABASE

http://www.adb.org/projects/terms-use

The Asian Development Bank project database contains more than 6,000 project records with data, information, and links to project documents going back to 1998. ADB project data are accessible in PDF, Excel, and XML formats.