congestion, inequality, and fragmented interventions, these urban systems remain relatively weak. However, their rapid growth and … wealth provide an opportunity to usher in inclusive and environmentally sustainable economic growth. Transforming the … Operational Plan addresses the environmental (green), equity (inclusiveness), and economic (competitiveness) issues, and sets out …

The Framework of Inclusive Growth Indicators 2012 (FIGI 2012) is the follow-up edition to FIGI 2011, which proposed a … set of 35 indicators as measures of income and non-income outcomes of inclusive growth; the processes and inputs that are … provides a comparative analysis of the state of inclusive growth in developing Asia and in the other developing regions of the …

health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and … also in terms of non-traditional measures, such as self-rated poverty and happiness. The BLSS 2012, together with the BLSS …

In March 2012, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held the Subregional Workshop on Gender and Urban Poverty in South Asia … inclusion issues in urban development projects in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Participants … planning of urban development projects to facilitate gender- and socially inclusive outcomes and reduce poverty in South Asia. …

Round. With its focus on helping least developed countries and economies escape the poverty trap, it aims to strengthen … to export markets so that people in the economic periphery have a better opportunity to take poverty off their own maps. …