Youth Entrepreneurship in Asia and the Pacific 2019
Youth Entrepreneurship in Asia and the Pacific 2019 Ulrike Guelich, Niels Bosma and the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association (GERA)(2019) The Asia-Pacific region includes some of the wealthiest as well as some of the least developed countries in the world. Despite its wealth, there are growing disparities that have implications for achieving the United Nations 2030 […]
Migrants and their vulnerability to human trafficking, modern slavery and forced labour
Migrants and their vulnerability to human trafficking, modern slavery and forced labour The report explores various sites of vulnerability where migrants are particularly susceptible to human trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery. These include private dwellings, border crossings, irregular migration routes and conflict zones. The report illustrates that migrants are most vulnerable to exploitation in […]
Poverty Reduction in Vietnam: Achievements and Challenges
Poverty Reduction in Vietnam: Achievements and Challenges In retrospect, Vietnam has indeed gained impressive achievements in poverty reduction. Broad-based economic growth has improved the well-being of almost everyone in the entire population. The General Statistical Office estimates that the poverty rate fell consistently from 58 percent in 1993 to 37.4 percent in 1998, 28.9 percent […]
2019 Vietnam Youth Integrity Survey
2019 Vietnam Youth Integrity Survey Vu Ngoc Anh, Christian Levon, Nguyen Thi Kieu Vien, Towards Transparency (2019) Corruption remains a serious problem in Vietnam despite continued efforts and strong determination of the Communist Party and the government of Vietnam to eradicate corruption. A noticeable corruption effect seen worldwide is the public loss of trust in […]
A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India
A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that regardless of which of the two official poverty lines we use, we see a steady decline in poverty in all states and for all social and religious groups. Accelerated growth between fiscal years 2004–2005 and […]
Synthesis Report on Ten ASEAN Countries Disaster Risks Assessment
Synthesis Report on Ten ASEAN Countries Disaster Risks Assessment Sushil Gupta (Main author), United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and the World Bank Team (2010) This synthesis report on ASEAN disaster risks has been prepared by carrying out a desk review of already available reports, studies, maps, analyses and assessments regarding disaster risks […]
Fostering Women’s Entrepreneurship in ASEAN: Transforming Prospects, Transforming Societies
Fostering Women’s Entrepreneurship in ASEAN: Transforming Prospects, Transforming Societies Social Development Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (2017) This study examines the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in the ASEAN subregion. ASEAN has emerged as the most successful grouping in Asia and Pacific with gradual deepening of […]
Made in poverty – The true price of fashion
Made in poverty – The true price of fashion Groundbreaking research conducted by Oxfam has exposed the undeniable truth behind the clothes being sold in shops across Australia: workers are trapped in a cycle of poverty, no matter how hard they work. This research — the first in-depth investigation of its kind into the lives […]
Sustainable Development Report 2019
Sustainable Development Report 2019 Sachs, J., Schmidt-Traub, G., Kroll, C., Lafortune, G., Fuller, G; New York: Bertelsmann Stiftung and Sustainable Development Solutions Network (2019) The Sustainable Development Report 2019 generates seven major findings: 1. High-level political commitment to the SDGs is falling short of historic promises In September 2019, heads-of-states and governments will convene for […]
Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India 2020 – Update: Meeting the Challenges of COVID-19
Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India 2020 – Update: Meeting the Challenges of COVID-19 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), (2020) The Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India is a bi-annual publication on regional economic growth, development and regional integration in Emerging Asia. It focuses on the economic conditions of […]
Transformation towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies in Asia and the Pacific
Transformation towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies in Asia and the Pacific Asian Development Bank (2018) This report explores how resilience thinking can strengthen public policy to enable the transformation towards sustainable societies envisaged by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific region. The report takes stock of the changing nature of risk in Asia and […]
Impact Evaluation in Practice
Impact Evaluation in Practice Gertler, Paul J.; Martinez, Sebastian; Premand, Patrick; Rawlings, Laura B.; Vermeersch, Christel M. J, The World Bank (2016) The second edition of the Impact Evaluation in Practice handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policy makers and development practitioners. First published in 2011, it has been used […]
Persistent Malnutrition in Ethnic Minority Communities of Vietnam : Issues and Options for Policy and Interventions
Persistent Malnutrition in Ethnic Minority Communities of Vietnam : Issues and Options for Policy and Interventions Mbuya, Nkosinathi V. N. Atwood, Stephen J. Huynh, Phuong Nam, The World Bank (2019) Seventy-five percent of Vietnam’s ethnic minorities live in 45 of the country’s 63 provinces, which are located in the country’s northern mountain and central highlands […]
Inflation in Emerging and Developing Economies : Evolution, Drivers and Policies
Inflation in Emerging and Developing Economies: Evolution, Drivers and Policies Ha, Jongrim Kose, M. Ayhan Ohnsorge, Franziska, The World Bank (2019) Emerging market and developing economies, like advanced economies, have experienced a remarkable decline in inflation over the past half-century. Yet, research into this development has focused almost exclusively on advanced economies. This book fills […]
Shock Waves : Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty
Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives […]
