Large pockets of extreme poverty and hunger persist in Asia, where the global downturn makes it more difficult to achieve U.N. goals to reduce the ranks of the poor, the Asian Development Bank said ...

Basic social protection for all segments of the population is key to protecting people from extreme poverty and economic exclusion, according to views expressed today by government representatives fro ...

ALMATY, 14 October 2021 — As the pace of economic recovery picks up, countries in Central Asia have an opportunity to return to pre-pandemic levels of poverty reduction – if they put in place the ...

Before Central Asia could recover from the impacts of COVID-19 and return to pre-pandemic levels of poverty reduction, the world was plunged into more uncertainty given the war in Ukraine and rising ...

On October 2, the Institute for Tourism Development of Uzbekistan announced the implementation of a joint Uzbek-Chinese intergovernmental research project funded by China aimed at exploring the ways ...

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*MANILA, Philippines — The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has pushed an estimated 75 million to 80 million more people in developing Asia into extreme poverty as of last year compared with ...

This is the report of the review, based on desk study and some existing research in-country, of the status of water issues under Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) from three continents - ...

This refers to the editorial titled “Economic paralysis” (2/2/26). It states: “The massive scale of the flood control corruption scandal appears to have distracted the administration’s economic ...