Promoting Information and Communication Technology in ADB Operations
Promoting Information and Communication Technology in ADB Operations

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9292546090

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Rapid advances in information and communication technology (ICT) continue to create tremendous opportunities for economic and social gains in the world's poorest areas. A key infrastructure of knowledge-based economies. ICT is a driving force for rapidly growing new sectors. The Strategy 2020 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) reinforces the importance of drawing on ICT to enhance development in Asia and the Pacific. In line with Strategy 2020, ADB's 2013 ICT for Development Strategy and with the support of the Republic of Korea's e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund (EAKPF), this study examines and identifies opportunities for promoting ICT in ADB operations.

ADB Through the Decades: ADB's Fifth Decade (2007-2016)
ADB Through the Decades: ADB's Fifth Decade (2007-2016)

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2017-09-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9292579266

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Asia proved resilient to the effects of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, but sustaining rapid growth became more difficult afterward. Development challenges intensified, the global development agenda became more ambitious, and new sources of development finance emerged. This volume shows how the Asian Development Bank (ADB) continued to reform in order to meet these challenges. A new long-term strategic framework, Strategy 2020, was launched in 2008, to respond to the changing needs of the region. A midterm review of Strategy 2020 was released in 2014, further refining and adjusting priorities in order for ADB to remain relevant and responsive to borrowers. Various organizational changes were introduced, internal business processes were improved, and several new instruments were adopted as part of ADB's efforts to become "stronger, better, faster." ADB's lending capacity expanded significantly, with the fifth general capital increase in 2009, followed by the unique and groundbreaking combination of the Asian Development Fund portfolio with the ordinary capital resources balance sheet approved in 2015. Lending reached record levels in 2015 and 2016, exceeding the earlier spike in 2009 when ADB had responded to the needs of countries affected by the global economic crisis. ADB also enhanced its accountability and results orientation, becoming the first multilateral development bank to adopt a corporate results framework in 2008.

Information and Communication Technology for Development
Information and Communication Technology for Development

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9290920866

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The role of information and communication technology (ICT) in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world transcends geographical boundaries, economies, and sectors. Over the past decade, ICT has helped create the most rapidly growing industry sectors, driven efficiency in government and business operations, and developed the essential building blocks to a knowledge-based economy. The ability of ICT to change the way people do things is either hidden in internal processes---such as how a government office manages data collection---or manifest in the end product---such as digital support for health care services in a remote province. While the level and nature of the benefits of ICT may differ for every stakeholder, there is a consensus of what ICT can help provide to governments, businesses, and citizens: faster access to relevant information, an efficient means for communication, an enhanced ability to make informed decisions, and a voice to otherwise unheard peoples. As these cases from the Asian Development Bank would show, access to ICT alone will not result in significant, lasting change. It is the adoption of appropriate technology, paralleled with an enabling policy environment, a responsive and needs-based approach, improved individual and institutional capacity, nurtured partnerships with key stakeholders, leadership by local champions, effectively managed change, and sustained support that make the difference.

Asian Development Outlook 2018
Asian Development Outlook 2018

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2018-04-01

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 9292611216

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The annual Asian Development Outlook analyzes economic performance in the past year and offers forecasts for the next 2 years for the 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific that make up developing Asia. Growth prospects in the region are upbeat, buoyed by favorable demand at home and abroad. A strong performance in 2017 reflected a surge in exports, which will likely abate this year and next, and rapidly expanding domestic demand. While the outlook is for steady growth, risks to it are decidedly on the downside: Trade friction could weaken recently deepened trade links, tightening US monetary policy could diminish investment in developing Asia, and rising domestic private debt may hamper growth. New technologies drive higher productivity, the foundation for economic growth, better-paid jobs, and poverty reduction. The latest technologies in robotics and artificial intelligence may threaten some jobs, however, and leave less-skilled workers behind. To maximize gains in productivity while safeguarding social welfare, governments in developing Asia should protect workers but not preserve particular jobs. Meanwhile, they should facilitate the countervailing forces in new technologies that generate new jobs. Dealing with the downsides of new technology requires synchronized effort on skills development, labor regulation, social protection, and income redistribution.

Operational Plan for Agriculture and Natural Resources
Operational Plan for Agriculture and Natural Resources

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9292571087

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The publication guides the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in meeting the recommendations of the midterm review of the ADB Strategy 2020 to provide increased emphasis on food security and agriculture productivity. The Plan, which builds on the earlier Operational Plan for Sustainable Food Security in Asia and the Pacific (2010–2014), focuses ADB agriculture and natural resources (ANR) sector operations in four priority areas: (i) increasing the productivity and reducing pre- and postharvest losses of food crops; (ii) improving market connectivity and value chain linkages; (iii) enhancing food safety, quality, and nutrition; and (iv) enhancing management and climate resilience of natural resources. The outcome will be improved focus and quality of ADB ANR operations in meeting developing member country needs toward safe, nutritious, and affordable food for all.

Chinese Paradiplomacy at the Peripheries
Chinese Paradiplomacy at the Peripheries

Author: Yao Song

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-11-03

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1000992209

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This book explores how Chinese border provinces have become actors in international relations. Through an analysis of the international actorness – the inherent characteristics of a subnational entity as an international player – of Yunnan and two other geographically peripheral provinces, Guangdong and Guangxi, the domestic, economic, and legislative circumstances that motivated these provinces to conduct transboundary engagements are determined. The book is based on an extensive field study including interviews with those involved in the implementation of Yunnan’s foreign agenda, representatives from province-owned enterprises, universities and think tanks, and officials and experts from the countries neighboring Yunnan. Acknowledging the role of external geopolitics, the authors analyze the efforts of these border provinces to incentivize neighboring countries to cooperate with them on areas of trade, investment, and nontraditional security. Yao Song and Tianyang Liu also observe how border provinces have leveraged their paradiplomatic strengths to affect China’s foreign relations with neighboring countries. This volume will appeal to researchers, academics, and postgraduates in political science, international relations, and diplomacy as well as geography, Southeast Asian politics, political economy, Chinese periphery diplomacy, and nonfederal paradiplomacy.

Information and Communication Technology for Development in the Pacific
Information and Communication Technology for Development in the Pacific

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Adb Pacific Studies

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13:

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The objective of this booklet is to raise awareness among the different stakeholders on the role ICT may play in helping to develop the Pacific region. As there is no consolidated information available on the use of ICT in the region, this publication will assist in defining strategic directions and encourage organizations to reduce poverty by improving the delivery of basic services, such as education and health through the use of ICT.

Information and Communication Technology for Agriculture in the People's Republic of China
Information and Communication Technology for Agriculture in the People's Republic of China

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9789292618261

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This report presents the findings of an assessment on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to improve food production and distribution in the People's Republic of China. The analysis focuses on e-commerce in rural areas of the country and provides policy recommendations to promote the use of ICT in the agricultural supply chain. The report documents the trends in ICT application by farmers and its impact on income and livelihood. It also identifies the major constraints to and enabling factors for such ICT applications.

Developing Digital Governance
Developing Digital Governance

Author: Choong-sik Chung

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-05-06

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0429623364

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Why and how did South Korea become the world’s top digital government leader? This book examines the Korean model and how it is different from the digital government models of the West, specifically of the United States and the UK. The book also looks at the successes and failures that South Korea has encountered during the process of helping developing nations set up digital governments. The book begins with the origins and historical development of digital governance. It examines digital government strategies and informatization policies in Korea’s nation development and its promotion of the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. The book explains that one of the key successes was the result of leadership and a strong pan-governmental propulsion system, namely ICT governance. The book also suggests a new digital government development model in response to rapid changes in the ICT environment, specifically in view of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It is a useful reference for developing countries that are looking at developing their own national information master plan, including digital government.

ADB Through the Decades: ADB's Fourth Decade (1997-2006)
ADB Through the Decades: ADB's Fourth Decade (1997-2006)

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2017-09-01

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 929257924X

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The 1997 Asian financial crisis hit the region and became a defining moment for Asia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). As ADB participated in coordinated crisis responses, Asian policy makers used this opportunity to reassess their economic policies in a fundamental way. This volume presents how ADB met the challenges during the fourth decade of designing strategies to respond to rapid changes in the region following the Asian financial crisis, and responding to the changes in international development thinking. Several important policies and strategies were approved, including ADB's Poverty Reduction Strategy as well as ADB's first Long-Term Strategic Framework to 2015. ADB embarked on two major reorganizations (in 2002 and 2006) and committed to an internal reform agenda to be a more responsive, relevant, and results-oriented organization. ADB also took a proactive role in postconflict reconstruction in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, and Timor-Leste. ADB also needed to respond to a series of external shocks such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic in 2003, the Asian tsunami in 2004, and the Pakistan earthquake in 2005.