This ADB paper reviews the recent developments in world food markets and examines the larger challenges for Asia in ensuring sustainable food security and inclusive rural growth.
This report provides an energy outlook for the region up to the year 2035 to help identify policy, social, infrastructure, and technology issues that must be addressed to meet future energy needs of ADB members in Asia and the Pacific.
This report represents a synthesis and summary of frameworks for the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of climate change adaptation (CCA) interventions, with a specific focus on international development projects and programs.
According to this new World Bank report on "state of the poor" the extreme poverty has fallen across the developing world in the last three decades, but the pace was considerably slower in LICs and poverty for middle and high income countries (including India and China) fell by more than a half since 1981.
This guidance note provides an overview of the carbon financing market in the post-2012 context and provides guidance on how to access carbon finance. Also highlights good practices in low-carbon urban development.
By 2025, almost half of the world’s biggest companies will probably be based in emerging markets, profoundly altering global competitive dynamics projects this new report by McKinsey Global Institute. It focuses on understanding the global landscape for large companies—and how it will be reshaped by the rise of thousands of new corporate giants based in the emerging world.
Construction of a mega-steel plant in Odisha in Eastern India should be halted immediately, United Nations independent human rights experts have urged, citing serious human rights concerns.
The 9th edition of Global Report on Human Settlements argues that development of sustainable urban transport systems requires a conceptual leap and provides policy recommendations on how to plan & design sustainable urban mobility systems. Read this abridged edition released on the World Habitat Day.
This is the fourth report in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 60 countries that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. Indicates that internet freedom worldwide is in decline, with 34 out of 60 countries including India, assessed in the report experiencing a negative trajectory during the coverage period.
This special report, in the IEA’s World Energy Outlook series, assesses the prospects for Southeast Asia’s energy future and outlines the implications for regional and global energy markets.
