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Education, Human Capital Development for Inclusive Growth and Shared Prosperity
The Promise and Perils of Mother Tongue-Based Education
...Learned from MTB-MLE On paper, changing policy on the language of instruction to boost learning outcomes may appear simple and cost-effective. The change significantly reduced linguistic distance—a measure of how...
Infrastructure
South Asia could be linchpin for regional integration
...summit in Kuala Lumpur, leaders announced the launch of the ASEAN Community and ASEAN’s Vision beyond 2015. The end of 2015 saw the inauguration of the ASEAN Economic Community one...
Economics, Transport, Urban Development
Measuring the economic and social impacts of high-speed rail
...rapid communications and human interaction. Similarly, HSR is more likely to benefit higher-income workers with higher productivity, or those prepared to make longer commuting journeys to access the jobs for...
Governance and public sector management
Better urban management in the Pacific offers double dividends
...of proactive planning and management for urban growth. Underinvestment in roads and drainage means that urban infrastructure often serves populations which are many times larger than the number of people...
Environment, Governance and public sector management
Tools and principles for creating fiscal space for climate adaptation
...Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Nepal have developed climate budgeting systems to help tag climate-related investments. Policy makers should integrate climate risk management into their public investment management systems to identify, align,...
Agriculture and natural resources, Climate change, Environment
Unraveling the linkages between agriculture and climate change
...emissions compared to traditional wheat farming systems (Aryal et al. 2015). There are several other CSA practices, such as laser land leveling, climate-smart livestock farming, site-specific nutrient management (SSNM), and...
Economics, Finance sector development
Rising corporate market power in Asia threatens monetary policy effectiveness
...In an environment where firms face fewer competitive pressures in the setting of prices, the results indicate that these financial frictions are compounded by an impairment in the monetary policy...