This publication highlights new sector and thematic directions, operational opportunities, and technology and policy innovations for expanding and deepening regional cooperation and integration in Asia and the Pacific.

This guidance note shares insights on economic corridor development as an area-based approach and explores how to facilitate these multisector programs.

This book celebrates the 50-year partnership between Bangladesh and ADB and explores how they have worked together to reduce poverty, develop the country’s rural and private sectors, and target inclusive, sustainable development.

This edition shows how a modest improvement in economic fundamentals has buoyed East Asia’s local currency bond (LCY) markets, but potential renewed increases in inflation and further interest rate hikes could pose risks for the region’s borrowers.

This brief recommends reforms to increase potential GDP growth. These include improving the allocation of capital and credit in the economy, increasing the quality of education, and introducing policy measures to mitigate the adverse impact of demographic aging on the labor force and to lift total factor productivity.

Renewable energy

Renewable energy

The ESCWA Annual SDG Review 2023, the second in the series, explores the private sector's contributions to the realization of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs in the Arab region. Building on limited available data on the subject, the report offers an indicative reading of existing regional trends and gaps. The analysis is guided not only by the Agenda’s goals and targets but also by the whole-of-society and rights-based approaches and the principles of universality, leaving no one behind, combating inequality and promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women.

This South Asia Working Paper explores the benefits and trade-offs of harnessing private sector health services as governments look to build more resilient, accessible, and affordable health systems and support the post-pandemic recovery.