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Strategic Objectives and Commitments and Actions for World Food Security.

In this sixth Gender Review, in a series that began in 2011, the Global Education Monitoring Report team maintains the focus on a broad conception of gender equality that extend...

While many data gaps remain, we know that women are vulnerable to extreme poverty because they face greater burdens of unpaid work, have fewer assets and productive resources th...

This book shines a spotlight on the value of voice and agency, the patterns of constraints that limit their realization, and the associated costs, not only to individual women b...

This report moves beyond asset and production losses and focuses instead on how natural disasters affect people’s well-being. Here, natural disaster risk and losses are measured...

These examples from the Greater Mekong Subregion demonstrate approaches of immediate relevance for other towns and regions throughout Asia with extensive coastlines, riverine an...

The governments of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam are planning to build eleven large hydropower dams on the Lower Mekong River. If built, these dams would destroy the riv...

This paper focuses on the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The Fourth Industrial Revolution refers to a set of h...

The ASM reviews various aspects of SME finance within different countries. These aspects include the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. The main objectives of ...

Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 70/1, the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the United Nations system, has the honour to submit the report on progress towards the S...

Negative effects brought on by the poor planning for hydropower development in the Mekong basin will put the 60 million people living in the Mekong basin at risk and severely im...

This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. Eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimen...

This is country data extracted from global data of Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene

This energy sector assessment, strategy, and road map for Viet Nam documents the current assessment of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the strategic investment priorities ...

UNICEF's most recent key statistics on child survival, development and protection for the world’s countries, areas and regions. The statistical tables in this volume support UNI...

On 1 January 2016, the world officially began implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—the transformative plan of action based on 17 Sustainable Development...

Population density of Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam based on data from the World Data Bank. This dataset also includes a visualization of the data using CartoDB...

The Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2015 is a reference of current and emerging trends of economic, social and environmental development in Asia and the Pacific. F...

The authors provide solid evidence on the need to transition to more ‘resource-smart food systems’, an imperative for the achievement of at least 12 out of the 17 Sustainable De...

Policy brief on food security.