This brief assesses the development of payment and settlement market infrastructure in ASEAN+3 economies, tracks the evolution of real-…

This Sri Lanka project brief analyzes how ADB provided a $50 million loan to the state-owned Regional Development Bank (RDB) to unlock…

Climate finance has yet to reach the necessary scale for mobilizing sufficient funds to support the decarbonization efforts of…

This brief examines the public health consequences of smoking in five Asian countries and evaluates strategies to raise tobacco taxes to…

The operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in fragile and conflict-affected situations, small island developing states, and…

This edition analyzes how financial conditions weakened and bond yields rose in most emerging East Asian markets between 1 September and…

This report outlines the opportunities for ADB and other multilateral development banks to help make financial markets in Asia and the…

Highlighting the importance of Asia’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs), this report shows how economies can learn from policies…

Debt sustainability risks in developing economies have amplified in recent years in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Current climate policy commitments and practices have fallen significantly short of the necessary measures to achieve important…