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 […]
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 […]
Poverty in a Rising Africa
Poverty in a Rising Africa Perceptions of Africa have changed dramatically. Viewed as a continent of wars, famines, and entrenched poverty in the late 1990s, there is now a focus on “Africa rising” and an “African 21st century.” Two decades of unprecedented economic growth in Africa should have brought substantial improvements in well-being. Whether or […]
Negotiating gender equity in the Global South: The politics of domestic violence policy
Negotiating gender equity in the Global South: The politics of domestic violence policy Sohela Nazneen, Sam Hickey, Eleni Sifaki, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (2019) The fact that women have achieved higher levels of political inclusion within low- and middle-income countries has generated much speculation about whether this is reaping broader benefits in tackling gender-based […]
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO (2020) This joint report is issued annually by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, UNICEF, the World Food Programme, and the World Health Organization. It presents the latest estimates […]
Understanding the role of La Ha women in the family and community in Son La province
Understanding the role of La Ha women in the family and community USAID, iSEE (2019) The report is prepared by Tay Bac Group. The report provides an overview of the position and role of La Ha women in the family, in the labor division as well as in the community activities. Hence, we could identify […]
Factors Affecting the Bank Credit Accessibility of Rural Households in Vietnam
Factors Affecting the Bank Credit Accessibility of Rural Households in Vietnam Tran Long Giang, Hoang Thi Thanh Hang, Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research (2019) The research identifies and measures factors affecting bank credit accessibility using Heckman (1979). The research uses data from the dataset of Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey in 2014 and 2016 […]
Understanding Growth and Poverty: Theory, Policy, and Empirics
Understanding Growth and Poverty: Theory, Policy, and Empirics Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith, The World Bank (2011) This volume is an introduction to the theories and policies that affect economic growth and poverty. It is a compilation of lecture notes used in face-to-face and e-learning courses presented by the World Bank Institute’s (WBI) Poverty Program […]
