In seeking to reach upper middle-income status by 2030 and high-income status by 2045, Vietnam aspires to become a modern and industrialized nation with a higher quality of life for its citizens. After this brief introduction, the following section provides a background on the trends in the...

The objectives of the current report are to update the status of the road network and recent developments in connectivity, examine some major socioeconomic benefits that have accrued from greater connectivity, review how the government has been spending available resources on road sector...

The Philippines is one of the most natural hazard-prone countries in the world. Disasters in the country can quickly roll back hard-won economic and social development gains. To better safeguard the country against these disasters, it is critical to ramp up the institutional capacity and...