Is blockchain a good bet for development?
Blockchain technology offers great promise and great risk. We need to better understand how it works and how to use it safely and effectively.
Weaving a sustainable future for indigenous students
In the southern Philippines, a culture-based senior high school program is serving the Tboli community with an innovated approach to education.
Is it time for some countries to implement a brain drain tax?
A tax on migrating workers compensates the exporting country for loss of the human capital created by its education and skills development programs.
Creating a digital path for the unbanked
In the Philippines, cloud-based technology is being used to address the financial exclusion that helps fuel poverty and inequality.
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.