Greater Mekong Subregion Health Cooperation Strategy 2019–2023
Greater Mekong Subregion Health Cooperation Strategy 2019–2023 Regional health cooperation is a priority under the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program. Efforts to enhance regional cooperation and integration, while fundamental to economic growth in the subregion, expose GMS countries to an evolving layer of health challenges. Increased mobility and trade, including trade in agricultural […]
World Development Report 2021: Data For Better lives
World Development Report 2021: Data For Better lives Today’s unprecedented growth of data and their ubiquity in our lives are signs that the data revolution is transforming the world. And yet much of the value of data remains untapped. Data collected for one purpose have the potential to generate economic and social value in applications far beyond those originally anticipated. But many barriers stand in […]
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 – Reversals of Fortune
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 – Reversals of Fortune INTRODUCTION The Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides a global audience with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. For more than two decades, extreme poverty was steadily declining. Now, for the first time in a generation, the quest […]
Global Economics Prospects
Global Economics Prospects Although the global economy is emerging from the collapse triggered by the pandemic, the recovery is projected to be subdued. Global economic output is expected to expand 4 percent in 2021 but still remain more than 5 percent below its pre-pandemic trend. Moreover, there is a material risk that setbacks in containing […]
Mind the Gap: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities for Social Enterprise in Vietnam
Mind the Gap: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities for Social Enterprise in Vietnam Social enterprise is a maturing area of activity within the development sector, and in Vietnam the sector has expanded significantly over the last thirty years, providing social services to communities and individuals experiencing socio-economic exclusion. Initially growing in a legislative vacuum, social […]
Fragile States Index Annual Report 2020
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The Implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals
The Implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals Global responses to COVID-19 will impact on delivery of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, creating large uncertainties just at the time efforts need to be accelerated. This paper explores how COVID-19 could impact the success of meeting the targets with priority […]
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 […]
Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies in Asia and the Pacific
Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies in Asia and the Pacific Shamshad Akhtar; Bambang Susantono; Haoliang Xu, United Nations, the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (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 […]
