Asia and the Pacific

The Asia-Pacific is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean. Asia-Pacific varies in area depending on context, but it generally includes South, East, Southeast Asia, as well as Oceania. The term may also include parts of Russia (on the North Pacific and especially its Far East regions) and countries in the Americas which are on the coast of the Eastern Pacific Ocean; the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, for example, includes Canada, Chile, Russia, Mexico, Peru and the United States. Alternatively, the term sometimes comprises all of Asia and Australasia as well as Pacific island nations (Asia-Pacific …

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ADB: Asian Development Bank · 22 August 2024 English

The project will be aligned with the following impact: social welfare system strengthened to build resilience and promote human and social development. The outcome will be: health, resilience, and socioeconomic …

prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate


RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 26 March 2024 English

February 2024 Asia and the Pacific From content to harm: How harmful infor- By analysing how intensifying climate change threatens to increase poverty and hunger in Asia and the Pacific, this report highlights

The New Humanitarian | 20 February 2024 Asia and the Pacific From content to harm: How harmful infor- threatens to increase poverty and hunger in Asia and the Pacific, this report highlights the mation contributes


CGD: Center for Global Development · 25 March 2024 English

enter-based childcare programs are expanding rapidly in low- and middle-income countries. While the impacts of these programs on women’s labor market outcomes are consistently positive, what are the impacts on …

America and the Caribbean (21 studies), East Asia and the Pacific (20 studies), and Sub-Saharan Africa (11 0 1 0 EAP Notes: Regions are EAP = East Asia and the Pacific, ECA = East and Central Asia, LAC = Latin


ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 22 March 2024 English

Introduction From a small shop tucked away somewhere in the western part of Delhi, Jasmeen Kaur skyrocketed to internet stardom with her “Just looking like a wow!” Instagram reels. The …

Digital Technology for Financial Inclusion in Asia and the Pacific, UN ESCAP, March 2022, https:// www.unescap


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 21 March 2024 English

This edition reviews developments in local currency bond markets in emerging East Asia during the fourth quarter of 2023. While the size of these markets expanded by 2.5% quarter-on-quarter, local …

prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate


RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 21 March 2024 English

Beyond Relief Issue 8

of civilians affected by the crisis. The Asia and the Pacific Regional Logistics Training Workshop  In of humanitarian aid response working in Asia and the Pacific. NGOs that have experience responding to https://airlinkflight.org/blog-2023-in-review-airlink-in-asia-and-the-pacific/ https://www.rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publicati


World Bank Group · 20 March 2024 English

Adapting to climate change is an increasingly urgent policy priority in lower- and middle-income countries. This systematic review summarizes the current state of the literature on adaptation to climate change, …

American and the Caribbean (LAC). SAR and East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) have the most even distribution of


Amnesty International · 20 March 2024

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, call for the immediate and unconditional release of Kashmiri journalist and human rights defender Irfan Mehraj. While on a professional assignment on 20 March …


World Bank Group · 19 March 2024 English

Economic growth in developing countries in East Asia and the Pacific (EAP)1 has been strong over the past fifteen decades, economic growth in developing East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) has driven a large expansion in energy in areas such as 1 The developing East Asia and the Pacific region is defined by the World Bank’s operational


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 19 March 2024 English

A community-led approach engages the urban poor and other stakeholders in identifying, implementing, and sustaining a project.

achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific. It provides a timely resource for discussion-based


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