In the People’s Republic of China (PRC), environmental degradation has emerged as a flashpoint in the country’s next stage of development. The government has a strategy to…

After growing slowly for 3 decades from the 1950s through the 1970s, the Indian economy accelerated in the 1980s and sustained the pace through the 3 decades that followed…

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) places poverty reduction front and center among its operational priorities. But despite the tremendous progress achieved in Asia and the…

Drawing on the Philippines as a case study, this brief explores how effective the graduation approach is in reducing poverty and assesses opportunities to apply it in…