Indonesia’s new president wants to transform his nation into an high-income economy by 2045, but the fight against poverty is ...

However, slow economic progress is hindering shared prosperity in some regions, particularly in some Europe and Central Asia which experienced negative or low levels of shared prosperity. More ...

The region’s governments need to think seriously about developmental and demographic issues as part of their grand strategies.

The year 2025 will see this continuing. Double-digit growth is a thing of the past. Trade has been the key driver of this ...

East Asia and the Pacific is the world’s most rapidly urbanizing region, with an average annual urbanization rate of 3 percent. By 2018, half of the region’s population will be urban – more than 1.2 ...

Brooks, Douglas Hasan, Rana Lee, Jong-Wha and Son, Hyun H. 2010. Closing Development Gaps: Challenges and Policy Options. SSRN Electronic Journal, ...

Eradicating rural poverty has been a key initiative of Xi Jinping's eight-year tenure Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country has achieved the "miracle" of eradicating extreme poverty.

Covid-19 and the rise in cost of living have pushed close to 70 million more people in developing Asia into extreme poverty as of last year, the Asian Development Bank said, eroding efforts to ...

The Asia Society Korea Center 2014 Monthly Luncheon Series resumed on Tuesday, September 16 at the ASEAN-Korea Centre Exhibition Hall in Seoul. The guest speaker was Ambassador Pham Huu Chi from the ...

Clearly, the bases of prosperity and what must be done to tackle abject poverty and South-North migration ... of growth and prosperity across eastern Asia. Nobody expects people like presidents ...

In an exclusive interview with Asia Society, Professor Yunus discusses the importance of micro-credit for poverty alleviation in Bangladesh and elsewhere. Professor Yunus, could you please explain how ...

A new Pulse Asia survey, which was made public on Saturday, showed double-digit declines in the trust ratings of Vice ...