Protecting ASEAN’s impressive gains over the past two decades will require prioritizing investments in people – that is, human capital.

Among the countries with the highest number of mini grids, the top 4 are in South Asia.

Illicit trade in tobacco products undermines global tobacco prevention and control interventions, particularly with respect to tobacco tax policy. From a public health perspective, illicit trade…

  © Dominic Chavez/Global Financing Facility [[tweetable]]​When countries invest in people—particularly young people—they're investing in the future and giving the next generation an…

The Asia-Pacific region, comprised of 58 economies, is geographically expansive and a picture of diversity. The trends for sustainable energy in Asia-Pacific, which mirror the region’s economic…

© Thinkstock It was ten years ago, right before the global crisis when Lehman Brothers had not collapsed, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had not been placed into conservatorship. For debt managers…

For verification purposes Survey Solution's picture question allows to document the installation and their new owner. The implementation and the monitoring of large infrastructure projects is…

Photo © :  Hong Sar/ World Bank. Kyaw San has trouble studying at night. The student from Yangon Division’s Buu Tar Suu village finds it especially difficult during the rainy season when his old…

For the first time in history, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has fallen below 10%. The world has never been as ambitious about development as it is today. After adopting the…

Aerial view of the Ayeyawardi river in Myanmar by Michael Foley/Flickr under a Creative Commons license Myanmar’s rivers provide a reliable source of water for navigation and irrigation, and…