Cambodia has been growing rapidly over the past few years but still remains one of the poorest countries in East Asia …. In particular, poverty is widespread in rural Cambodia. This paper examines rural poverty in Cambodia with a view to … literature, it appears that reduced rural poverty in Cambodia would have to rest on two pillars. Firstly, improvements in …

Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) - on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a … the significant impact of the PDS and MDM in terms of poverty reduction and calorie intake. While there are large … also contributed significantly to poverty reduction. Almost half of the poverty reduction in the distribution …

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 …

The Asia and the Pacific region has the largest number of family farms in the world. It is home to 60 per cent of the … less than 2 hectares on average, family farmers in Asia and the Pacific produce 80 per cent of the total food needed to …-economic development and well-being of the entire population of Asia and the Pacific. As the reports for the Food and Agriculture …

an overview of non-contributory social protection programmes in selected regions in Asia and the Pacific. Moreover, the … poverty. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has explicitly recognised the importance of implementing "nationally … Goal 1: "End poverty in all its forms everywhere". Nonetheless, knowledge of specific programmes being implemented across …

an overview of non-contributory social protection programmes in selected regions in Asia and the Pacific. Moreover, the … poverty. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has explicitly recognised the importance of implementing "nationally … Goal 1: "End poverty in all its forms everywhere". Nonetheless, knowledge of specific programmes being implemented across …

policy. This paper reviews the current evidence regarding the impact of aid on growth and poverty reduction, and develops a …-Saharan Africa and the Pacific. The paper then turns to recent discussion of new and innovative sources of development finance and … concludes that aid broadly works, that poverty would be higher in the absence of aid, and that the shortfall in aid during the …