Platform work has the potential to help women reconcile the age-old conflict between unpaid work and market work. It also has the…

The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives across a dynamic and developing…

We use two waves of data from the India Human Development Survey to investigate the effect of family size on (i) parental expenditures…

Using the staggered roll-out of the Indonesian Conversion to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Programme, we show that a subsidy for the…

This policy brief provides evidence of the persistent digital gender divide across ASEAN and explains how it is of key importance to…

In this issue of Update from Washington DC.: The Economist’s Technology for Change Week Asia; Don’t Mess with Me: Combating Gender-based…

The COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with an unprecedented global crisis, has hard hit all the countries around the world. However,…

The Asia Foundation’s Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) project supports women’s organizations to work on a range of economic…

This paper begins with a discussion of women’s labor force participation in the Pacific Islands, including an overview of challenges…

Women are more vulnerable to COVID-19–related economic effects because of existing gender inequalities. In this uncertain time, women’s…