This joint OECD and ADB report on Leveraging Technology and Innovation for Disaster Risk Management and Financing examines how emerging technologies and innovation can improve the management of disaster and climate risks and the availability and affordability of financial protection tools.

This report presents the research initiative to explore an alternative methodology for extrapolating purchasing power parities (PPPs) for 21 participating economies in the Asia and Pacific region. The 2009 PPP Update provides an intermediate benchmark and more firmly based real expenditures and...

Prepared by the Office of the General Counsel under the Law and Policy Reform program of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), this publication highlights the significant impact of ADB’s technical assistance for legal development in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It also demonstrates the...