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A regional approach supported by ADB promotes universal health coverage by making urban and rural health care efficient, affordable, high quality, and fully accessible to all.
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Financial Market and Capital Flow Dynamics During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020-06-30)
This paper empirically examines the reaction of global financial markets across 38 economies to the COVID-19 outbreak, with a special focus on the dynamics of capital flow across 14 emerging market economies. Using daily data over the period 4 January ...
Poverty, the Middle Class, and Income Distribution amid COVID-19
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2020-08-15)
Often development focus has been on measuring and analyzing poverty in order to reduce poverty. While the poor face future prospects of being perpetually trapped in poverty, the nonpoor also are vulnerable to poverty. Vulnerability has been particularly ...
COVID-19 Impact on International Migration, Remittances, and Recipient Households in Developing Asia
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-08-07)
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic risks devastating impact on economies around the world, including widespread unemployment and lower incomes. Toward the end of June 2020, workplace closures applied to 77% of country observations worldwide, ...
The Costs of Covid: Australia’s Economic Prospects in a Wounded World
(Lowy Institute For International Policy, 2020-08-20)
After infecting more than 23 000 Australians and killing over 420, the coronavirus pandemic in Australia is fading sooner and with less economic damage than expected. While the secondary wave of infection in Victoria is a big setback and there may yet ...
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RSIS NTS Bulletin: February 2022
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2022-02-28)NTS Bulletin is a monthly periodical that discusses current issues concerning Climate change, Energy, food, water and Health security; Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. -
Addressing Nutrition Security in Urban India through Multisectoral Action
(Asian Development Bank, 2022-02-28)The Asian Development Bank is supporting the implementation of the National Urban Health Mission in India. In support of the undertaking, this paper provides available evidence-based data on urban nutrition in the country and explores practical ... -
COVID-19 and Voter Turnout in Europe and in Korea
(Korea Development Institute, 2022-02-21)Even while we are suffering from the pandemic, cyclical events arrive mercilessly as scheduled. While some of them are held virtually (i.e., online), and some of us are already used to virtual events, some cannot be completely virtualized, at least as ... -
“Building a sailboat in a storm”: The Evolution of COVAX in 2021 and Its Impact on Supplies to Southeast Asia’s Six Lower-Income Economies
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022-02-15)As it became increasingly evident that vaccines would be central to the recovery from the global pandemic, the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) Facility was created to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, especially for poorer countries. ... -
Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Risk Management: Revitalizing Philippine Rivers to Boost Climate Resilience and Enhance Environmental Sustainability
(Asian Development Bank, 2022-02-15)This brief shares how the regional TA identified NbS options for the FRM master plans using the NRM approach. The river basins used as NbS pilot areas could serve as models for potential replication and upscaling in other river basins in the Philippines ... -
SDPI E-Newsletter on Covid-19: Vol. 3, No. 11-12
(Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2022-02-11)In order to keep abreast of emerging issues at the National/International and local level, the SDPI brings out a Bi-weekly E-Newsletter on “COVID-19” It carries reference information’s to the News items/Comments/Op-Eds appearing in leading ... -
Plastic Pollution in Southeast Asia: Wasted Opportunity?
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2022-02-10)Plastic pollution is clearly a climate problem as it contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions. What has been done in Southeast Asia ─ one of the plastic pollution hotpots ─ to reverse the worsening marine plastic pollution? -
SDPI E-Newsletter on Covid-19: Vol. 3, No. 7-10
(Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2022-02-04)In order to keep abreast of emerging issues at the National/International and local level, the SDPI brings out a Bi-weekly E-Newsletter on “COVID-19” It carries reference information’s to the News items/Comments/Op-Eds appearing in leading ... -
Unborn Tomorrow: Pandemic and Its Impact on the Next Generation
(Korea Development Institute, 2022-02-03)We are in the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. For two years since its outbreak, the virus has been unhurriedly and untiringly spreading with the number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths still soaring to staggering heights. Nearly 300 million ... -
Communicating COVID-19 effectively in Malaysia : Challenges and Recommendations
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022-01-30)Malaysia was initially lauded for its ability to combat the first few waves of COVID-19 but infection spikes since the Sabah state elections in September 2020 and subsequent exponential increases in both infections and deaths in 2021 left the nation ...