The COVID-19 pandemic has such a wide-reaching and sudden adverse impact on people’s livelihoods. For a country like the Philippines…

Financial inclusion can help curb poverty, reduce inequality, and potentially enhance productivity and long-term growth. However,…

The Philippines aspires to be an upper middle-income country by 2022 as stated in the 2017–2022 Philippine Development Plan. It has also…

This case study focuses on measures adopted by Guangdong Province to enhance the efficacy and efficiency of spending programs for…

Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, this working paper applies a new costing model to analyze the costs associated with…

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused a steep drop in the number of migrants from Tajikistan during the spring season in…

Persons with disabilities are among the poorest and most vulnerable, lacking access to education, social protection, health-care…

This paper focuses on measures adopted by Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China to eradicate absolute poverty by the…

This publication examines tourism in Asia and the Pacific, the impacts on it of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and how it…

This paper looks at investments in children's health and education among participants of the Philippine conditional cash transfer…