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Data mapping on ageing in Asia and the Pacific: analytical report
HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2015Population ageing is an increasingly important demographic, social, and economic issue for researchers and policy makers throughout developing Asia prompting a need for data to monitor change and formulate evidence-based policies. There have been increasing endeavors in the Asia-Pacific region to collect information specifically related to older persons through representative surveys.DocumentFrom the ground up: Changing the conversation about climate change
BBC Media Action, 2014This policy briefing, produced by BBC Media Action, draws upon the world’s largest study of people’s everyday experience of climate change: the Climate Asia Project.DocumentPensions at a glance
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2012In addition to giving insights on the sustainability of public pensions and the pressures they face with the mounting demographic issues, Pensions at a Glance – Asia/Pacific Edition 2011 aims to enhance interaction between OECD member countries and non-member Asia/Pacific countries and economies.DocumentPensions at a glance: Asia/pacific edition
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009Asia's pension systems need modernising urgently to ensure that they are financially sustainable and will provide adequate retirement incomes. A core concern of this study is the social sustainability of pensions - the future adequacy of pension benefits, the impact of pension reforms on the distribution of income among older people, and ways of combating old-age poverty.DocumentThe burden of typhoid in five Asian countries
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008Typhoid fever remains a public health problem in developing countries in Asia. One control strategy is vaccination in high-risk areas. Before introducing the vaccines, however, updated data is needed for countries with high occurrence of typhoid.DocumentInterrelationship between growth, inequality, and poverty: the Asian experience
Asian Development Bank, 2007This paper examines the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty for 17 Asian countries for the period 1981–2001. The author uses an inequality–growth trade-off index (IGTI) to analyse the trade-off between inequality and growth. A poverty equivalent growth rate is also employed to study the distributional impact of growth.DocumentInclusive growth toward a prosperous Asia: policy implications
Asian Development Bank, 2007Asia’s impressive economic growth is being complemented by soaring inequalities. This paper argues that if rising income and non-income inequalities are not addressed, there is a major risk to continued social and economic progress in developing Asia.DocumentLabour migration in Asia: trends, challenges and policy responses in countries of origin
International Organization for Migration, 2003This book explores the new patterns and trends that are emerging in labour migration in Asia, which are affected by not just the labour market, but also national and social circumstances.DocumentSocial Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.