A publication of the Asian Development Bank No. 13     April - June 2012
Developing Asia
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FOCUS: Private Sector Development ●

  • The Big Read: Banking on Big Business
    Can private companies do a better job of reducing poverty than governments?

  • The Big Picture: Bridging the Gap
    Public-private partnerships (PPP) offer an economically viable solution to infrastructure needs when public funds are limited. Despite some failures, PPPs continue to spread across developing Asia

  • The Big Voice: Taking Stock
    Durreen Shahnaz thinks investors will buy stocks in companies based on social impact. She should know

  • Global Asia
    Asian companies are using their new-found financial might to invest worldwide, but they are not always welcome

  • Tiny Savings
    After the enthusiasm and then lowered expectations of microlending, advocates for microsavings take a more cautious approach

  • The Triple Bottom Line
    Companies in Asia are reinventing the concept of corporate social responsibility by putting people and the planet on par with profits

  • Poverty Profits
    The world's poor are increasingly being viewed as a lucrative market for the private sector. Is it exploitation or long overdue?
ARTICLES ●
DEPARTMENTS ●
Off the Press
  • Jobs Malaise
  • Number of Middling Poor Growing
  • Burgernomics
  • Stunted Growth
  • Just Sharing Space
  • Country-Specific Censorship
  • Achilles Heel of Emerging Markets
On the Web
  • Daily Developments: The Guardian's Global Development Report
  • Surprising Choices: Yourtopia
Off the Shelf
  • Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
  • Demystifying the Chinese Economy
  • Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream
  • Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
On the Record
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Esther Duflo
  • Singapore Ambassador-at-large Tommy Koh
  • Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa
  • GE Ecomagination Program Vice-President Mark Vachon
  • World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati
The Green Imperative

The combined budgets of the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and every other development organization in the world make up just a drop of the economic fuel needed to power billions of people into greater prosperity. Those who work in development have long known that the private sector must play a major role in the enormous economic change needed to lift large numbers of people out of poverty. Finding the right partnership between the private sector, the public sector, and the development community is at the forefront of development work today. In response, this edition of Development Asia takes a careful look at the role of the private sector in development work and examines innovative strategies being employed in the region.

Ann Quon
Publisher
Asian Development Bank

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Development Asia features development issues important to the Asia and Pacific region. It is published four times a year by the Asian Development Bank. The views expressed in this magazine are those of the authors and do not reflect the views and policies of the Asian Development Bank or Haymarket Media Ltd. Use of the term "country" does not imply any judgment by the authors or the Asian Development Bank as to the legal or other status of any territorial entity.

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