At your service: trade liberalization could bring huge benefits to Southeast Asia
Making it easier for workers to move between countries is key to liberalizing the trade in services and unleashing the benefits it will produce across national and regional economies.
Strengthening the chains that helped pull Asia out of poverty
The global value chains that help drive Asia’s export-driven economic miracle have widespread development impacts. We need to understand them better to maximize the benefits.
Tại sao Đông Nam Á không nên lo lắng về việc “chảy máu chất xám”
Bài viết giải thích tại sao nhận thức cho rằng sự di cư của lao động có kỹ năng nghề làm tổn hại nguồn lực quốc gia là sai lầm.
Why Southeast Asia shouldn’t worry about “brain drain”
Here’s why the perception that skilled migration damages the source country is wrong.
Promoting skilled labor mobility and migration in Southeast Asia
Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are working together to encourage the free flow of skilled labor within their countries.
Pension extension: Bringing informal workers into the retirement social safety net
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.
Why I’m optimistic we can achieve SDG #1—ending poverty in all its forms, everywhere
The graduation approach provides a sequenced intervention designed to overcome multiple barriers that prevent the extreme poor from breaking out of poverty.
Good governance by design
Carefully designed social programs offer the best chance to avoid corruption, inefficiency and other governance problems.
Why it matters that one of the region’s biggest trade deals is being upgraded
Important changes are underway for Southeast Asia’s relationship with its biggest trading partner, the People’s Republic of China.
Disasters put people on the move, for better or for worse
Disaster-related displacement is often negative, but can result in more resilient communities under the right circumstances. This can include better management of remittances sent to family members in the disaster zone.