Asia Regional Integration Center
Tracking Asian Integration
Regional Public Goods
Regional cooperation and integration is a process by which national economies become more interconnected. Closer integration can result in positive benefits, such as coordinated disaster response, or negative externalities, such as the spread of communicable diseases. The Asia Regional Integration Center (ARIC) monitors developments in these Regional Public Goods, which also include:
- Climate change
- Clean energy and environmental protection
- Anti-corruption and good governance
- Human and drug trafficking
- Anti-money laundering
Initiatives
more- ADB and Human Trafficking in Asia
- ADB Asia Solar Energy Initiative
- ADB Avian Flu and Emerging Diseases
- ADB Clean Energy Program
- ADB Climate Change Program
- ADB Cooperation Fund for Fighting HIV/AIDS
- ADB-OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific
- ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting (ADMM-Plus)
- ASEAN Safe School Initiative Phase II
News
- [People's Rep. of] China's desire for close [Islamic Rep. of] Iran ties unchanged, [President] Xi says ahead of Saudi [Arabia] prince's visitChannel News Asia21 Feb 2019
- Kazakhstan increases solar power electricity by 9 percentThe Astana Times20 Feb 2019
- [People's Rep. of] China, [Russian Federation], India FMs to hold meeting in Zhejiang[, People's Rep. of China]Xinhua News Agency20 Feb 2019
Opinions and Editorials
- [US'] JP Morgan is rolling out the first cryptocurrency by a US bank to transform the payments businessCNBC14 Feb 2019
- How COP24 helped to close the gender gapUnited Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change11 Feb 2019
- Feature: [People's Rep. of] China–Pakistan relations thrive on cultural frontiers with rising trend of mutual acceptabilityXinhua News Agency5 Feb 2019
Studies and Research
- The Effect of Emigration on Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Central Asia and South CaucasusPaul SaumikAsian Development Bank Institute15 Mar 2018
- The Impact of Primary School Investment Reallocation on Educational Attainment in Rural Areas of the People's Republic of ChinaT. Haepp and L. LyuAsian Development Bank Institute1 Mar 2018
- Natural Disasters, Public Spending, and Creative Destruction: A Case Study of the PhilippinesS. Jha, et al.Asian Development Bank Institute1 Mar 2018
Links
more- ADB-OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific
- ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity
- ASEAN Non-Communicable Diseases Network
- ASEAN University Network (AUN)
- Asia Clean Energy Forum
- Asia Pacific Judicial Reform Forum
- Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
- Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
- Asian Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Network
Featured Publications
Toward Optimal Provision of Regional Public Goods in Asia and the Pacific
The Era of Financial Interconnectedness: How Can Asia Strengthen Financial Resilience?
