State-owned enterprises face unique challenges when it comes to attracting foreign financing for infrastructure projects. But there are solutions.
Area frame sampling – which compiles objective agriculture data using geographic areas and advanced technology – is increasingly being used in Asia to help farmers prepare for climate change and extreme weather.
Parental characteristics are not the sole determining factor of one’s future mobility prospects in Asia and the Pacific.
Both emerging and existing technologies should complement each other to bolster agricultural data quality.
Trade services are a viable alternative to keep low-skilled workers out of poverty in middle-income countries.
Big Data is a great way to sift through the massive amount of information we need to track for the SDGs.
Spatially explicit maps of crop yields can help countries improve overall agricultural productivity.
Millions of Asia’s informal workers – such as vendors, day laborers, and others – are left out of national pension systems. Here’s what we can do to help them in their later years.
Carefully designed social programs offer the best chance to avoid corruption, inefficiency and other governance problems.
To understand fragility and resilience in Papua New Guinea, look to history and the people living in the country’s most vulnerable areas.
Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are working together to encourage the free flow of skilled labor within their countries.
Involuntary resettlement can improve the lives of the resettled while reducing poverty and delivering results for development projects
‘Build back better’ is often easier said than done after a disaster, but one example from the People’s Republic of China shows that it can be done well.
Millions of Asia’s informal workers – such as vendors, day laborers, and others – are left out of national pension systems. Here’s what we can do to help them in their later years.
There’s one big element missing before we can create a truly transparent, seamless and open international trading framework.
The graduation approach provides a sequenced intervention designed to overcome multiple barriers that prevent the extreme poor from breaking out of poverty.
State-owned enterprises, including power utilities, in many countries have collected a menagerie of assets unrelated to their core business. And they are selling cheap.
