Increasing female labour force participation has been a challenge for the country. These challenges are even greater for night-work and…

The ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility Green Recovery Program (ACGF GRP) Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) has…

The Fifty-Third Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank was held virtually in two stages. The first stage…

Myanmar continues to face challenges to achieving inclusive economic growth. In the past decade, the government of Myanmar has…

Some commentators argue that China deliberately pursues the “debt trap diplomacy” to project undue political influence over smaller…

This publication summarizes the 53rd ADB Annual Meeting (2nd stage), which involved events on current development issues in Asia and the…

Scholars studying the North Korean economy say that North Korea (NK) faces three difficulties by the end of 2020: sanctions against NK,…

The Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Governors is an opportunity to provide guidance on the administrative,…

Developing Asia has seen a buildup of public and private debt since the global financial crisis. Private debt in particular has grown…

Multilateral Matters is the quarterly publication of the Centre for Multilateralism Studies (CMS), analyzing the most recent…