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This paper examines income inequality across provincial-level administrative units in the People’s Republic of China…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Butaeva, Kristina|Park, Albert

People's Republic of China

22 Oct 2025

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Thailand, an upper middle-income country, has developed innovative solutions to complex problems in a wide range of…

Thailand

22 Oct 2025

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To support economic recovery, ADB is assisting Solomon Islands to invest in transport, water supply, energy, urban…

Solomon Islands

22 Oct 2025

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This publication sets out a reproducible methodology that combines remote sensing and area frame survey methods in…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Burgard, Anthony|Pacificador, Jr., Arturo Y.|Masaki, Takaaki|Durante, Anna Christine|Lapitan, Pamela

Vietnam

20 Oct 2025

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This study finds that a microcredit program in poor rural areas of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Cai, Shu|Park, Albert|Wang, Sangui

People's Republic of China

20 Oct 2025

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Using rural Bangladesh data and an instrumental variable approach, this paper shows that women’s mobile phone…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Matsuura-Kannari, Masanori|Tian, Shu|Saiful Islam, Abu Hayat Md.|Tauseef, Salauddin

Bangladesh

17 Oct 2025

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This brief highlights the need to close the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Munkh-Achit, Maralmaa

People's Republic of China

17 Oct 2025

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This brief provides an overview of civil society in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It highlights that PNG’s civil society…

Papua New Guinea

16 Oct 2025

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<p>Central Kalimantan experienced the highest rates of burning and the most repeated fire incidents. Water is…

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Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Sudarmanto Budi Nugroho, Junko Ota, Hiromitsu Samejima

Asia and the Pacific

16 Oct 2025

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