South Asia to capitalize on this opportunity. The authors review the apparel sectors in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri … Lanka, and compare them with Vietnam and China. The report uses quantitative data (analysis based on a gravity model …

both plausibly affected workers in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh. These reforms include a minimum wage …

Vietnam has achieved impressive improvements in its health outcomes over the last few decades. Life expectancy has …, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Vietnam has also risen sharply. These trends imply a shift in the health needs of Vietnam …, Vietnam's health service delivery system is hospital-centric, which is both expensive and not well-suited to the management of …

This paper seeks to find an empirical explanation of Vietnam's outstanding performance on the Programme for … the unique exception of Vietnam, are typically clustered at the lower end of the range of the Programme for International … student Assessment scores. The paper compares Vietnam's performance with that of a set of seven developing countries from the …

Bangladesh, these services generally are not delivered through formal utilities, but rather through well-functioning informal …, Bangladesh. The analysis finds that access to water and sanitation services is overall quite high, but these services are subject …

in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …