The APO publications are categorized into three broad groups, namely Report Format Titles, Priced Publications, and General Publications.
All publications are in English.
These publications are reports of the proceedings of projects such as basic research, surveys, symposia, study meetings and seminars. Since its inception in 1961, the APO has published about 400 such reports. They are distributed to national productivity organizations, university libraries, research institutes, government agencies, private sector corporations, and selected individuals, usually university faculty, researchers, resource persons of the APO, and business executives. In addition, there are also the presentations made by the resource persons. The text of these papers is included in the published report of the project.