Development Imperatives for the Asian Century

Development Imperatives

The objectives of the project are 1) to enhance the capability of civil society organizations in economic policy advocacy work, and 2) to pursue specific policy reform agenda based on the needs of the sector. In the last three years, in each of the sub-sector, the project is implemented through the MultiStakeholders’ Team (MST) which consists of a key NGO partner, a subject specialist (technica...

tWeNtieth-CeNtury CeNtraL asiaN history

Recently opened archives in Central Asia have allowed historians to debunk several myths about the Soviet constitution in that region. Archival research has revealed that indigenous elites were associated with the process of territorial division in the 1920s and 1930s and many of their conflicts were echoed in the central ruling bodies in Moscow. Similarly, field research has undermined the ide...

Creativity & Innovation: Imperatives for Global Business and Development

The set includes five articles with both theoretical and empirical content that were chosen articles because they cover a wide range of issues, promote cross-learning, and contribute to the present understanding and the existing body of knowledge in SCM. Realizing the complexity of supply networks , Iraj Mahdavi et al. have introduced the concept of dynamic information flow in an intelligent su...

Taiwan in the 20th Century: Model or Victim? Development Problems in a Small Asian Economy

Economic performance in the long term is the result of interaction between an economy’s internal characteristics and its external environment. The internal characteristics include economic and social institutions, governmental and legal frameworks, natural and human resources, and locational factors. The external environment consists of two parts, one made up of foreign resource configurations ...

Asian Development Bank Strategy for the Pacific