This paper examines the complementary and competitive roles of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in … Asia given the backdrop of a changing world in which development priorities and challenges are changing rapidly and the … recent efforts at improving aid coordination. With this background, the paper examines the roles of the World Bank and ADB in …

Over the past two decades, Asia and the Pacific have not only experienced rapid growth, but in parallel saw a rapid … caused by the obesity endemic for the region. This paper fills this gap by providing a first cost estimate for 42 Asia and … the Pacific countries. Our estimations include both direct costs caused by additional medical expenditures as well as …

analysis of paperless trade measures included in selected RTAs in Asia and the Pacific confirms that the coverage of RTAs of … Trade in Asia and the Pacific can be expected to provide a useful tool for harmonized implementation of many of these … included in regional trade agreements (RTAs), including in the Trans-Pacific Partnership and ASEAN agreements. Such measures …

and patterns in developing governance and institutions in DRM in the Asia and the Pacific region. The paper then derives …

). Poverty is estimated using Demographic and Health Surveys for three different years for Cambodia (2000, 2005 and 2010), for …, health and standard of living. Our findings indicate that Cambodia shows the highest level of poverty, followed by Indonesia … poverty measures based on counting approaches using ordinal variables to the understanding of the evolution of poverty in …

in the Philippines helped mitigate the poverty impact by allocating more fiscal resources to build local resilience while …

eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, with the specific goals of halving the proportions of both undernourished and malnourished … people between 1990 and 2015. The poverty goal was met fully, ahead of schedule, and substantive progress was made toward the … millions of families from the desperate cycle of hunger and poverty also had consequences for the environment. Roughly 72% of …

) barriers to entry prevail. The paper also explores the ITES industries' implications for economic growth and poverty reduction … employable or impoverished, let alone to the problem of rural poverty …

It is an empirical fact that it is very difficult to balance economic growth, poverty reduction, and environment … targeting of the chronic issue of poverty reduction without causing damage to the natural environment. It is in this context … crisis has discouraged United States (US) private consumption, which in turn has significantly reduced exports from Asia …

survey instrument, but so far has mainly been implemented in higher-income countries outside of Asia. Our paper extends the … literature by conducting the survey in two relatively low-income Asian economies - Cambodia and Viet Nam - and analyzing the … Cambodia (11.5) and Viet Nam (12.0) are at the low end of the range seen in a sample of 30 countries that have implemented the …