Publications

Urban areas all over the PRC have embraced a wide range of solutions to reduce energy consumption, green and clean their energy supply, transform the concept of waste, promote green and blue spaces, and improve urban mobility. Each of the 50 featured solutions—some are projects sponsored by the Asian Development Bank (ADB)—shows how cities take climate actions and also create valuable co-benefits in terms of positive impacts on citizens’ public health and quality of life, as well as providing economic and additional environmental benefits.

The “Macroeconomic Monitoring and Forecasting of the CAREC region” (MMF) research study provides a learning tool for conducting analysis of state of the economy; forecast near-term challenges and prospects of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) member economies.

The Almaty–Bishkek Economic Corridor fact sheet explains the corridor concept and its application through Almaty–Bishkek Economic Corridor development, shows the achieved milestones, and outlines the tasks ahead.

This publication is meant to be a practical resource for policy makers to improve the underlying conditions required for good road maintenance.

In this paper, we propose a panel approach in the construction of the Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation and Integration Index (ARCII) to strengthen the index’s ability to track the progress of economic integration in the region over time.

The CAREC Institute’s (CI) first annual report 2017 details many achievements that CI has made since its virtual presence to a physical base establishment gradually occupying a niche of a leading knowledge center for the region. The sustained effort has been made to stimulate the institutional development of the CI, and achieve targets stipulated by the Governing Council of eleven member countries. This report also provides an overview of the CI’s major activities for the next year.