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Papers and Briefs
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Strengthening Livelihoods: Case Highlights from a Livelihood Support Program in the Ger Areas of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
This brief outlines how a livelihood support program for people affected by involuntary resettlement around Mongolia’s capital has provided training and resources to help them bolster their incomes and household resilience.
Open for Business: How Maldives Overcame the COVID-19 Crisis
The pandemic’s devastating impact on tourism-dependent Maldives highlighted the need to diversify its economy to reduce macroeconomic instability and insulate it against future shocks.
Acceptance and Use of English in the Bond Markets
This brief explains why ASEAN+3 bond markets should consider using English as a common language to attract more professional investors, boost liquidity, and support the future creation of an intraregional market.
Barriers to Entry: Decomposing the Gender Gap in Job Search in Urban Pakistan
Using matched data from three sources in Lahore, Pakistan, the paper finds that employers’ gender restrictions are a larger constraint on women’s job opportunities than supply-side decisions.
Update on Financial Market Infrastructures in ASEAN+3
This brief assesses the development of payment and settlement market infrastructure in ASEAN+3 economies, tracks the evolution of real-time gross settlement systems, and looks at the potential of rapid digitalization.
Strengthening Foundations to Unlock Green Finance in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
This brief sets out ways the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) can offset the predicted financial impacts of climate change and start improving its creditworthiness to unlock the green finance resources it needs for resilient growth.
Nonresponse Bias in Household Inflation Expectations Surveys
This work shows that some demographic groups end up underrepresented in household inflation expectations surveys due to item nonresponse.
An Overview of Approaches to Transition Finance for Hard-to-Abate Sectors
Climate finance has yet to reach the necessary scale for mobilizing sufficient funds to support the decarbonization efforts of businesses.
Excise Tax Policy and Cigarette Use in High-Burden Asian Countries
This brief examines the public health consequences of smoking in five Asian countries and evaluates strategies to raise tobacco taxes to reduce smoking prevalence and boost revenue.
Sri Lanka: Strengthening the Regional Development Bank Project
This Sri Lanka project brief analyzes how ADB provided a $50 million loan to the state-owned Regional Development Bank (RDB) to unlock much-needed financing for the micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) central to the country’s growth.