The annual portfolio performance report (APPR) provides the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board and Management with a strategic overview…

This publication provides estimates of purchasing power parities (PPPs) and real expenditures for 22 economies in Asia and the Pacific.…

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has virtually stalled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its physical infrastructure component or…

ASEAN, the world’s fifth-largest economy, is moving towards greater economic integration yet is severely constrained by an expanding…

The impacts of imports on the domestic labour market have been hotly debated recently. The purpose of this paper is to empirically…

This paper develops a theoretical framework to explain the limited effect of business development programs (BDPs) on entrepreneurs’…

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has severely affected East and Southeast Asian economies, especially by disrupting the flow…

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has severely affected East and Southeast Asian economies, through disruptions to the flow of…

In Georgia, the average cost of a room1 in a 3-star hotel was 128 GEL per night in April 2020. While the average cost of a room in a 4-…

April, May and June of 2020 will be remembered in Georgian tourism industry as the months with record-low number of visitors, as the…