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Improved Human Resources Management and Staff Incentives
A pilot job rotation scheme was developed to enhance skill and career development of national officers at resident missions. The pilot job rotation scheme is one of the initiatives to address the need referred to in the Human Resource Strategy and the Independent Assessment Panel Review. The main objective of...
Experience Of Asian Asset Management Companies: Do They Increase Moral Hazard?
This paper examines the performance of Asian Asset Management Companies AMCs. The analysis reveals that the AMCs vary in their design and performance. The paper claims that AMCs can trigger moral hazard-induced bank lending. Empirical examination of the Thai experience of AMCs reveals that moral-hazard induced bank lending resulted in...
Viet Nam: Foreign Direct Investment And Postcrisis Regional Integration
Since Viet Nam started its transition from a centrally planned economy to a socialist-oriented market economy, many reforms have been implemented. The Foreign Investment Law signaled an important step toward Viet Nam's integration in the regional and international economic systems. The relatively low amount of foreign investment relative to other...
Foreign Direct Investment: The Role Of Policy
This brief analyzes the policy context in which Foreign Direct Investment FDI flows occur. It highlights the value for ADB's Asian Development Bank Developing Member Countries DMCs of incorporating their investment policies in a development perspective, and learning from the experiences of countries that have successfully benefited from FDI. A...
Economic Analysis of Health Projects: A Case Study in Cambodia
The economic analysis of health projects has not received the attention that projects in other sectors have received primarily because of perceived difficulties in quantifying economic benefits. The purpose of this technical note is to present an example of an approach to the economic analysis of a health project that...
Foreign Direct Investment In Developing Asia
Foreign Direct Investment FDI flows have increased dramatically in last few decades. As developing countries, particularly in Asia, remove restrictions and implement policies to attract FDI inflows, trade and investment have become increasingly intertwined. As such, there have been growing calls for a multilateral framework of foreign investment rules to...
Developing Best Practices for Promoting Private Sector Investment in Infrastructure
This report is one of a series of five commissioned by the Asian Development Bank ADB to identify and recommend best practices to be followed and specific steps to be taken, by ADB's developing member countries in order to encourage both private sector investment and competition in infrastructure development. This...
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Asian cities struggling against urbanisation woes: ADB
SINGAPORE AFP — Asian cities need help to cope with an unprecedented period of urbanisation, the Asian Development Bank ADB said Wednesday, stressing that their future prosperity is at stake. Providing adequate water supplies and infrastructure are among the key issues facing urban planners and policymakers, ADB president...
ADB President Outlines Water Agenda for Asia-Pacific Region
Singapore, June 25, 2008 - ACN Newswire - Asian Development Bank ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda today unveiled a seven-point agenda to prioritize water investments in the Asia-Pacific region and said that the institution is committed to helping countries in the region boost new water investments to $20 billion to improve...
ADB Calls for New Focus on Asian Cities
Singapore, June 25, 2008 - ACN Newswire - With Asian cities growing by over 100,000 people a day, a major rethink is needed on how cities manage growth because the current approach is no longer economically, environmentally or socially sustainable, the Asian Development Bank ADB said at the World Cities...
Inflation in Asia to rise, may endanger growth: ADB
KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Inflation in Asia will hit 5.1 percent in 2008 due to surging food and fuel prices and could threaten economic growth in the region, the Asian Development Bank warned Sunday. "Our projection for inflation for Asia for 2008 is 5.1 percent which is already...
ADB to lend 100 million dollars to China for energy programme
MANILA AFP — The Manila-based Asian Development Bank said on Thursday it would lend 100 million dollars to China to bring energy-efficient technology to the industrialised province of Guangdong. The long-term, low-cost loan to the Guangdong provincial government will be used to provide credit to major energy consumers...
China seeks help to restore panda habitat: ADB
MANILA AFP — China is seeking outside help to save the Qinling mountains, home of the giant panda, a national symbol that is threatened with extinction, the Asian Development Bank said Wednesday. China's Shaanxi province has applied for a loan to finance a conservation project for an area...
Privatisation & Public Private Partnership Review 2008/09
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c92662) has announced the addition of "Privatisation & Public Private Partnership Review 2008/09" to their offering. In addition to examining the last year, this 13th edition of the Privatisation & Public Private Partnership Review also casts an eye over future privatisation and...
2ND LD: ADB announces $500 mil. funding to help people facing food crisis
MADRID, May 6 Kyodo (EDS: RECASTING, ADDING COMMENTS) Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda announced Tuesday that the Manila-based lender will offer $500 million in emergency funding to developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region to help the poor and needy in the region...
US warns Asian Development Bank it risks becoming 'irrelevant'
MADRID AFP — The United States, the Asian Development Bank's second-biggest donor, warned the institution on Tuesday it risked becoming irrelevant if it fails to adapt to the region's rapid economic expansion. "It's important for the ADB to stick to its overall mission, but at the same time...
ADB to provide 500 million dollars to combat food crisis
MADRID AFP — The Asian Development Bank will provide 500 million dollars (320 million euros) in immediate assistance to member nations hit hardest by soaring food prices, the head of the bank announced Tuesday. ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda said the bank would also double lending for agriculture in...
ADB chief warns a billion Asians at risk from soaring food prices
MADRID AFP — The head of the Asian Development Bank called on Monday for an "immediate response" to soaring food prices which he said placed more than a billion Asians at risk of malnutrition. ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda also warned that the food problem could cut into decades...
Japan warns rising food prices could lead to unrest in Asia
MADRID AFP — Soaring prices for food staples, especially for rice which have tripled over the past year, could lead to social unrest in Asia, Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga warned Sunday in Spain. "The recent hike in the price of rice will hit Asian countries particularly hard....
Asian nations agree to set up crisis fund
MADRID AFP — Finance ministers of 13 Asian nations agreed here on Sunday to set up a foreign exchange pool of at least 80 billion dollars (52 billion euros) to be used in the event of another regional financial crisis. China, Japan and South Korea will provide 80...
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