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Environment

Foundation, The Asia (The Asia Foundation, 2019-02-28)

Asia represents 30% of the world’s land area yet is home to 60% of the world’s population. Even with declining growth rates, Asia still adds approximately 40 million people to the region every year—creating higher demand for an ever-shrinking natural resource base. As natural resource extraction and exploitation intensifies to meet growing demands for food, water, energy, and other essential inputs ...

Asia represents 30% of the world’s land area yet is home to 60% of the world’s population. Even with declining growth rates, Asia still adds approximately 40 million people to the region every year—creating higher demand for an ever-shrinking natural ...
Women’s Business Center and Incubator Project

Foundation, The Asia (The Asia Foundation, 2019-02-28)

Mongolia is a stable and growing democracy, with significant economic potential. Despite the economy’s high growth rate during the recent mining boom, it is an economy still in transition. A significant portion of Mongolia’s business sector is comprised of informal and small businesses, an area of potential growth. Women in Mongolia have higher university graduation rates than men. Yet women are ...

Mongolia is a stable and growing democracy, with significant economic potential. Despite the economy’s high growth rate during the recent mining boom, it is an economy still in transition. A significant portion of Mongolia’s business sector is comprised ...
Insight into Urban Well-Being in Myanmar: The 2018 City Life Survey

Ukaid; Cooperation, Swiss Agency for Development and (The Asia Foundation, 2019-02-22)

This report is a summary of the survey findings. It does not cover all 135 questions that were asked in the survey and it only provides an initial illustration of how answers vary between groups (e.g. how responses of the poor vary to the rich). The summary report is one part of a suite of products that report survey findings. It does not lay out prescriptive policy recommendations as the problems ...

This report is a summary of the survey findings. It does not cover all 135 questions that were asked in the survey and it only provides an initial illustration of how answers vary between groups (e.g. how responses of the poor vary to the rich). The ...
Small Policy Change, Big Impact: Improving Internet Access in the Philippines

Change, Coalitions for (The Asia Foundation, 2019-01-30)

In March 2018, citizens in two remote municipalities of the Philippines accessed the Internet for the first time. The breakthrough was made possible by Pipol Konek, a government program aimed at providing free Internet access to millions of unserved and underserved Filipinos. This story traces how a policy change introduced in August 2017 unlocked the Pipol Konek program. It describes how a group ...

In March 2018, citizens in two remote municipalities of the Philippines accessed the Internet for the first time. The breakthrough was made possible by Pipol Konek, a government program aimed at providing free Internet access to millions of unserved ...