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  • RCI Digest — 2013 Vol.: 3 - Issue No.: 1
    December—January 2013
  • RCI Digest — 2012 Vol.: 2 - Issue No.: 5
    September—November 2012
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    • Special feature:   ADB Support for Regional Public Goods

      Rapid economic growth and regional integration has led to increasing cross-border challenges for developing countries—such as controlling communicable diseases, facilitating trans-border infrastructure, mitigating financial contagion, and addressing environmental concerns—which require regional responses. The role of regional development banks (RDBs) in supporting regional public goods (RPGs) is significant. RDBs have scaled up assistance and partnered with developing member countries (DMCs) in promoting regional cooperation and integration (RCI) that promote RPGs.   ...Read more

  • RCI Digest — 2012 Vol.: 2 - Issue No.: 4
    July—August 2012
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    • Special feature:   ADB Climate Change Actions

      While rapid economic expansion has brought immense benefits to Asia, it has adversely affected the environment. Greater production and consumption, connectivity, and flows of goods and people have created environmental degradation through air pollution and damage to protected areas, and contributed to increases in greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. ADB has responded to these challenges by integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation among its efforts, consciously melding this as an overarching theme for projects in different sectors such as agriculture, energy, transport, health, and social protection.   ...Read more

  • RCI Digest — 2012 Vol.: 2 - Issue No.: 3
    May—June 2012
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    • Special feature:   Association of Southeast Asian Nations

      The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by founding members Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.   ...Read more

  • RCI Digest — 2012 Vol.: 2 - Issue No.: 2
    March—April 2012
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    • Special feature:   Subregional Cooperation Programs in Archipelagic Southeast Asia

      On the sidelines of the 20th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit on 4 April 2012 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the Sixth Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) Summit and the Eighth Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) Summit endorsed their respective Implementation Blueprints (IBs) for 2012–16.   ...Read more

  • RCI Digest — 2012 Vol.: 2 - Issue No.: 1
    January—February 2012
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    • Special feature:   ADB—Pacific Regional Department

      ADB’s Pacific Regional Department (PARD) has long been supporting RCI among its 14 Pacific developing member countries (PDMCs), often with other development partners. Contributions include support for regional development forums, infrastructure finance; regional projects focused on renewable energy, marine and coastal management; and strengthening disaster preparedness.   ...Read more

  • RCI Digest — 2011 Vol.: 1 - Issue No.: 5
    October—December 2012
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    • Special feature:   South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC), South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), and Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)

      ADB supports RCI in South Asia in four ways: (i) subregionally through the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) program, (ii) regionally through the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), (iii) interregionally through the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), and (iv) through collaboration with networks of regional policy research institutes.   ...Read more

  • RCI Digest — 2011 Vol.: 1 - Issue No.: 4
    August—September 2012
  • RCI Digest — 2011 Vol.: 1 - Issue No.: 3
    June—July 2012
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    • Special feature:   The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC)

      The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program is a partnership of 10 countries and six multilateral institutions promoting development through regional economic cooperation. CAREC proactively facilitates practical, results-based regional projects and policy initiatives in transport, energy, trade facilitation, and trade policy. ADB serves as the CAREC Secretariat, and provides financial and technical support in the implementation of priority regional projects and initiatives.   ...Read more

  • RCI Digest — 2011 Vol.: 1 - Issue No.: 2
    April—May 2012
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