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Meeting the challenges of secondary education in Latin America and East Asia: improving efficiency and resource mobilization
World Bank, 2006While policy makers in many countries have shown an increasing interest in expanding and strengthening their secondary education systems, many challenges remain.DocumentPayments for environmental services: a trial in Vietnam
IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2006This study looks at whether Vietnam could adopt the Payment for Environmental Services (PES) approach as part of its national conservation strategy. Using a pilot study in the country’s uplands, it investigates how such a scheme might run and assesses its impact on the environment and on the local people’s livelihoods.DocumentAgeing population requires pension reform in Viet Nam
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Viet Nam is currently a ‘young’ economy, with just nine percent of the population over the age of 60 years and a median age of 25 years. But life expectancy is increasing and fertility rates are decreasing. The elderly will make up more than a quarter of the population by 2050.DocumentEvaluating co-ordination and complementarily of Country Strategy Papers with National Development Priorities
Department for International Development, UK, 2006This study examines the role which the Country Strategy Papers (CSPs) and similar policy documents of the EC play in improving coordination and complementarity between EC and member states’ aid programmes.DocumentChildhood poverty, basic services and cumulative disadvantage: an international comparative analysis
Young Lives, 2007This paper explores the ability of children living in poverty to access multiple basic services. The study draws on a sample of over 8,000 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.The authors argue that children denied access to education or health services are more likely to reside in households deprived of other basic infrastructure and therefore prone to cumulative disadvantages.DocumentTurning around fragile states
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Donor interest in fragile states has increased recently, partly due to the belief that extreme poverty, economic decline and violent conflict are linked to the rise in global terrorism. But donors need to understand better the factors that affect development in these countries if aid is to be more effective.DocumentPushing tobacco control up the development agenda
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007The adverse health effects of tobacco use are well known. Tobacco kills around 5 million people each year and remains the leading cause of preventable death worldwide.DocumentUneven development stimulates drug consumption in South-East Asia
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007United Nations-supported development policies have focused on eradicating the production and trade of illicit drugs in South-East Asia. However, tensions between development initiatives and those seeking to control the trade have created changing, often unanticipated, patterns of drug consumption.DocumentWomen’s general and reproductive health in global supply chains
Business for Social Responsibility, 2006In developing economies, women account for a disproportionately large percentage of the workforce engaged in manufacturing for export markets.DocumentPopulation ageing in East and South-East Asia: current situation and emerging challenges
UNFPA Country Technical Services Team for East and South-East Asia, 2006There has been marked progress in the policy response to population ageing in countries of the ESEAR, particularly since the commemoration of the International Year of Older Persons in 1999 and the 2002 Madrid World Assembly on Ageing.This report describes the current situation of population ageing, its causes and consequences and implications at the policy, programme and community level.Pages