This brief provides insights on how learning losses caused by the closure of schools during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic…

This paper examines the labor market conditions of the paid workforce in the health and elderly care industry in the People’s Republic…

Policy makers may relax unnecessary regulations for highly skilled foreign workers. 

Key challenges in Thailand’s basic education include the need to expand the supply of human capital to avoid the middle-income trap and…

Education systems in Southeast Asia can benefit from mobile-assisted language learning and mobile-assisted language teaching.

This study examines different forms of support for smallholders provided through farmers’ groups and cooperatives in Nepal. It finds…

This brief uses cellphone data to assess the effect of COVID-19 community quarantines, or lockdowns, on urban mobility in the…

This paper analyzes data from cellphone-based origin-destination flows to assess the effect of community quarantines on urban mobility…

This publication summarizes presentations and discussions from the ADB–Asian Think Tank Development Forum, which was held in November…

The outbreak of the COVID -19 virus and the resulting drop in demand are having a severe impact on Asian economies and, by extension,…