Stronger national data and regional cooperation are essential to creating durable, inclusive responses for the region’s 16 million displaced people.…

Reforms in India's public sector helped Yantra India Limited shift from losses to leadership in defense manufacturing.

This publication reviews the landscape of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in 26 countries in Asia and the Pacific. Accompanied by a…

This policy brief highlights the importance of the Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX) standard in transforming data dissemination.

This analysis of data from the Philippines finds that mobile internet connectivity leads to higher household wealth.

Fiji joined ADB in 1970, and has since been helping the country through investments in transport infrastructure, water supply and sanitation, public…

This paper examines the economic costs of caregiving for women in Pakistan, revealing a significant wage penalty.

This brief uses a macroeconomic model and household survey data to estimate the impact of the 2025 US tariff on Cambodia. It finds that, while effects…

This paper explores how high frequency automatic identification system data can be leveraged to assess the near real-time impacts of typhoons on…

This paper examines the gender-specific effects of exogenous public spending shocks across a global sample using a novel identification strategy and…

About 75% of GDP in Asia and the Pacific depends on nature, but it remains overlooked in economic planning. Healthy ecosystems support public health,…