Income growth in rural areas may be one of the greatest challenges to further poverty reduction and economic development. Using a new survey of rural Bhutanese households we investigate the short-term economic, social, and psychosocial benefits of a vocational skills training program that was...

This report updates the 2007 private sector assessment for the Kyrgyz Republic. It is based on the experience gathered by the Asian Development Bank over the last 5 years and includes information current as of January 2013. Despite notable examples of entrepreneurship in some industries, such as...