Technical Assistance (cofinanced by the Japan Special Fund and the Government of Switzerland) for the Strategic Environmental Framework for the Greater Mekong Subregion
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 22
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The Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Program
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReport and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors on a Proposed Loan and Technical Assistance Grant to the Lao People's Democratic Republic and a Proposed Loan to the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam for the Greater Mekong Subregion
Author: Asian Development Bank
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatalyzing Green Finance
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2017-08-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9292578561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA large financing need challenges climate-adjusted infrastructure in developing Asia, estimated at $26 trillion till 2030. This necessitates crowding-in private sources to meet financing, efficiency, and technology gaps. However, a lack of bankable projects is a major hurdle. This publication suggests one possible innovative financing approach. The Green Finance Catalyzing Facility (GFCF) proposes a blended finance framework for governments and development entities to better leverage development funds for risk mitigation, generate a pipeline of bankable green infrastructure projects, and directly catalyze private finance. The GFCF provides useful inputs for the current debate on mainstreaming green finance into country financial systems.
Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region
Author: François Molle
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1849770867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe water resources of the Mekong river catchment area, from China, through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos to Vietnam, are increasingly contested. Governments, companies and banks are driving new investment in roads, dams, diversions, irrigation schemes, navigation facilities, power plants and other emblems of conventional "development." Their plans and interventions pose multiple burdens and risks to the livelihoods of millions of people dependent on wetlands, floodplains, fisheries and aquatic resources.
Doing A Dam Better
Author: Ian C. Porter
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0821369865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book succinctly describes how a large hydro dam in a poor country with weak capacity was successfully prepared by a truly global development and financial partnership, by turning the natural resource curse on its head and tapping the state of the art to mitigate environmental and social impacts.
Making Economic Corridors Work for the Agricultural Sector
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization (Fao)
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Published: 2015-02-20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBanking on the Future of Asia and the Pacific
Author: Peter McCawley
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2017-04-01
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9292577921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a history of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral development bank established 50 years ago to serve Asia and the Pacific. Focusing on the region’s economic development, the evolution of the international development agenda, and the story of ADB itself, this book raises several key questions: What are the outstanding features of regional development to which ADB had to respond? How has the bank grown and evolved in changing circumstances? How did ADB’s successive leaders promote reforms while preserving continuity with the efforts of their predecessors? ADB has played an important role in the transformation of Asia and the Pacific the past 50 years. As ADB continues to evolve and adapt to the region’s changing development landscape, the experiences highlighted in this book can provide valuable insight on how best to serve Asia and the Pacific in the future.
Future Carbon Fund
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2017-12-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9292610635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAsia and the Pacific is home to more than 60% of the world's population and 62% of the global economic output. But the region still faces enormous development challenges and with economic growth, it has become a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This has exposed Asia and the Pacific to the impacts of climate change, threatening to undo the development gains from economic prosperity over the past decades. This report reflects how Clean Development Mechanism projects supported by the Future Carbon Fund not only reduce GHG emissions but deliver social, environmental, and economic co-benefits contributing to sustainable development in the region. This report also presents qualitative and quantitative analysis of these co-benefits.
Toward an Environmentally Sustainable Future
Author: Qingfeng Zhang
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9290927135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication presents the results of a 2-year effort to update environmental assessment in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The research was a collaborative effort involving the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the National Development and Reform Commission, and numerous other technical and research institutions in the PRC. Based on this research and extensive consultations, ADB proposes a wide range of programs and policies that will help improve environmental quality despite new and emerging sources of pollution and challenges to natural resources management. Inclusive growth and a green economy are the government's guiding principles for its development agenda under the 12th Five-Year Plan and beyond to 2020. To support these principles, the PRC needs to restructure its economic and fiscal systems to reflect environmental externality, expand the use of market-based instruments to control pollution, and introduce and implement legal reforms to clarify responsibility and promote cooperation.
