Books
This book is a history of the Asian Development Bank, a multilateral development bank established 50 years ago to serve Asia and the Pacific. It focuses on the region’s economic development, the evolution of the international development agenda, and the story of ADB itself.
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Asian Development Outlook 1994
The Asian Development Outlook 1994 is the sixth edition of the annual comprehensive economic report on ADB's 32 developing member countries.
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Asian Development Outlook 1993
The Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 1993 is the 5th edition of the annual comprehensive economic report on the developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank.
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Informal Finance: Some Findings from Asia
Published for ADB by Oxford University Press (OUP) in 1992, this book is based on a research project that examined informal finance in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Philippines, and Thailand. Issues such as regional diversity within countries and differences between rural and urban areas are discussed. Rather than summarizing the five country studies on which it is based,Informal Financepresents a synthesis based on a common framework that permits cross-country comparisons.
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Asian Development Outlook 1992
The Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 1992 is the 4th edition of the annual comprehensive economic report on the developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank.
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Asian Development Outlook 1991
The Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 1991 is the 3rd edition of the annual comprehensive economic report on the developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank.
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Asian Development Outlook 1990
The Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 1990 is the 2nd edition of the annual comprehensive economic report on the developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank.
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Asian Development Outlook 1989
The Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 1989 is the first edition of the annual comprehensive economic report on ADB's developing member countries.