Despite almost three decades of Philippine decentralization, local governments continue experience varied levels of development and face…

The Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) is a data collection system designed to methodically process and integrate local government…

In Roman literature, the word ‘black swan’ was used as metaphor to express impossibility as it was perceived that swans were always…

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has exposed the fragility of labour markets around the world. It might be the world’s biggest emergency in…

ASEAN FOCUS is a bimonthly publication providing concise analyses and perspectives on ASEAN matters.

One of the innovative ways by which the Government of India is addressing the challenges of rural road development is the use of plastic…

As we seek to increase impact investing activity, it is likely that further progress will be constituted by scaling existing activity as…

The countercyclical pattern of saving in Thailand in the 1990s and 2000s challenged the prediction of permanent income theory and raised…

This paper aims to examine the effect of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance on sovereign funding costs, with a focus…

This working paper posits that the Fourth Industrial Revolution, driven by the expanding digital economy, will bring significant changes…