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- This report explores the benefits of Asia and the Pacific’s coral reefs, outlines the myriad risks they face from climate change, pollution, and development, and considers how nature-positive investments can finance their protection and restoration.
- This report provides an overview of the strategic context, activities, and deliverables of the Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) in 2022.
- Continued growth is expected in the Pacific, but governments need to generate additional resources for public infrastructure and services essential to sustaining economic development.
- Focusing on Pacific economies, this 2023 edition shows how micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) helped spur a robust recovery from the pandemic and why supporting their development is key to driving sustainable, inclusive growth.
- The Vessel Days Scheme has stimulated economic return but raised concerns about tuna overexploitation.
- To support economic recovery, ADB is assisting Solomon Islands to invest in transport, water supply, energy, urban infrastructure and services, education, health, and public sector management.
- This is the sixth annual progress report of the Pacific Renewable Energy Investment Facility, covering January to December 2022.
- Pacific economies are bouncing back as tourism recovers and infrastructure projects resume, but inflationary pressures and vulnerability to natural hazards remain downside risks.
- This is the annual progress report of the Pacific Renewable Energy Program, covering January to December 2022.
- This brief outlines how cost–benefit analysis can help policy makers assess potential solid waste management projects by quantifying the estimated economic, environmental, and health impacts.
- The normalization of violent behavior in larger families may be linked to a lack of resources available to effectively address and resolve conflicts.
- This report outlines how the Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative helped to strengthen an enabling business environment and to promote inclusive growth in the region during the fiscal year 2022.
- Subnational and national industrial development and regional cooperation policies are critical for Pacific island countries to participate in global and regional production networks.
- This publication and accompanying summary materials highlight key messages from current research and data on women’s economic empowerment in Pacific island countries.
- The implementation of trade facilitation measures has a significant impact on overall manufactured exports.
- This publication reviews the financial performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in nine Pacific island economies and looks at how policy makers can help state-owned power utilities address climate risk.
- This report presents an analysis of 2018 social protection data from the Asian Development Bank’s 14 Pacific developing member countries.
- This issue explores how Pacific developing member countries can strengthen their post-pandemic social protection systems to help address long-standing development concerns and boost resilience to further shocks.
- This annual report outlines how the Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI) supported the enabling environment for business and helped foster inclusive private sector-led economic growth in the Pacific during 2021.
- The Pacific region is expected to grow by 4.7% in 2022 and 5.4% in 2023 as most economies emerge from the worst of the pandemic-induced downturn.