To unlock student potential in East Asia Pacific, be demanding and supportive of teachers

Among the 29 countries and economies of the East Asia and Pacific region, one finds some of the world’s most successful education systems. Seven out of the top 10 highest average scorers on…

Michael Crawford |
Education

How do we achieve sustained growth? Through human capital, and East Asia and the Pacific proves it

Students at Beijing Bayi High School in China. Photo: World Bank In 1950, the average working-age person in the world had  almost three years of education, but in East Asia and Pacific (EAP), the…

Michael Crawford |
Education, Jobs & Development, Poverty, Digital Development, Governance

On International Women’s Day, 5 facts about gender and the law in the Pacific Islands

There is a lot that development practitioners don’t know about the Pacific Islands. When it comes to the laws of these small island nations scattered throughout the ocean separating Asia and the…

Katrin Schulz, Yasmin Bin-Humam, Nayda L. Almodóvar-Reteguis., Paula Tavares, Isabel Santagostino |
Gender, Governance

Now is the time to strengthen disaster risk reduction in East Asia and the Pacific

In PDF: Korean | Khmer Every time I learn of another natural disaster – the people killed and injured, homes destroyed, livelihoods lost – I know we must act to reduce the tragic impact instead of…

Axel van Trotsenburg |
Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Environment

East Asia and Pacific countries can do better in labor regulation and social protection

Those unfamiliar with the fast growing emerging economies of East Asia are likely to think that governments in these countries let market forces and capitalism roam free, red in tooth and claw.…

Truman Packard |
Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Gender, Jobs & Development, Social Protection