Elgar Companion to the Asian Development Bank

Edited by M. G. Quibria, Professor of Economics, Morgan State University, US and former Senior Advisor, ADB Institute and Albab Akanda, independent scholar and former Principal Infrastructure Specialist, ADB

• ContentsPreface xiiAcknowledgments xv1 Asian Development Bank and the Belt and Road Initiative: challengesand opportunities 1Xianbai Ji and Pradumna B. Rana2 The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: a complement or a substitutefor the Asian Development Bank? 11M. G. Quibria3 Organizing the Asian Development Bank: challenges and opportunitiesin an increasingly multipolar world 21Stephen P. Groff4 Improving professional expertise: key to enhancing the AsianDevelopment Bank’s development effectiveness 33Cedric Saldanha5 Economic research at Asian Development Bank: a retrospective 43Ramesh B. Adhikari6 Averting economic crisis in developing Asia through economicsurveillance: the role of the Asian Development Bank 56Juzhong Zhuang7 Climate disasters in Asia and the Pacific: the role of the AsianDevelopment Bank in mitigation and adaptation 66Vinod Thomas8 Post-pandemic developing Asia: an agenda for the Asian Development Bank 78Shiladitya Chatterjee9 Symbiosis of trade and regional cooperation in Asia and the Pacific: therole of the Asian Development Bank 91Douglas H. Brooks10 The role of the Asian Development Bank in fostering regionalintegration through cross-border transport connectivity 101Jayant Menon11 Assessing the role of mega infrastructure initiatives and the AsianDevelopment Bank in financing Asian infrastructure 116Ganeshan Wignaraja and Marco Gatti12 From governance to performance in Asia-Pacific 131Clay G. Wescott13 Poverty in developing Asia and the Asian Development Bank 144Mohiuddin Alamgir14 Agricultural transformation and food security in developing Asia: pastsuccesses, present challenges, and future policy options 157M. G. Quibria15 Megacities in developing Asia: challenges and opportunities 167Syed Abu Hasnath16 Environmental and social impact assessment: revisiting the theme 177Armando Balloffet and Albab Akanda17 The Asian Development Bank’s accountability mechanism: shifts in theaccountability landscape 187Suresh Nanwani18 The Asian Development Bank’s environment program: challenges anddirections 199Prodipto Ghosh19 The evolution of the Asian Development Bank’s relations with civil society 213Bart W. Édes20 Improving the Asian Development Bank’s education sector service delivery 226William Loxley21 Advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in Asia beyondthe Covid-19 pandemic – challenges and opportunities for the AsianDevelopment Bank 236Eugenia McGill22 The Asian Development Bank’s energy sector operations in thetwenty-first century 249Dan Millison23 The private sector challenge for the Asian Development Bank: some reflections 263K. A. S. Murshid24 Promoting ICT in developing Asia: the road ahead 275Raja M. Mitra25 The Asian Development Bank and the Pacific Islands 288Xianbin Yao

‘I strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in Asian development and, in particular, the ADB. It provides an authoritative yet accessible introduction to the ADB—its objectives, policies, development outcomes, strengths, weaknesses, areas for reforms, and challenges going forward including state-of-the-art reviews of current debates on various ADB-related issues in the context of ongoing deliberations on development assistance, international political economy, and good governance.’