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UN Millennium Development Goals (Goal 7) Fact Sheet

People across the Asia-Pacific region live with diverse and interlinked risks. These risks are related to increasingly severe and complex shocks to the political, social, econom...

The 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production patterns (10YFP) is a global framework of action to enhance international cooperation to accelerate...

Following on the outcome of the 2010 High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations Secretary-General established the...

Data on the LMCs on Key Dimensions of Water Security, developed by ADB.

The Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Goals Outlook report aims to develop a shared understanding of the opportunities and challenges confronting the region. This report prov...

This report, following the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), reviews ASEAN–ADB cooperation, focusing on ADB’s role and operations in strategic areas of cooperation d...

Building on Thailand’s Revised Information Paper/Matrix: Compilation of Possible Complementarities between the ASEAN Community Blueprints 2025 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainabl...

The Heads of State/Government of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People’s Republic of China, gathered on the 50th Anniversary o...

For two decades now, the UNESCO Science Report series has been mapping science, technology and innovation (STI) around the world on a regular basis. Since STI do not evolve in a...

The eradication of poverty and the provision of equitable and inclusive quality education for all are two intricately linked Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As this year’s...

This paper presents the first estimates for a key target of Sustainable Development Goal 4, which requires primary and secondary education that  lead to relevant and effective ...

Update on financial forecast for developing Asia.

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...

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 ...

To achieve the steady growth envisaged in this report, policy makers in developing Asia need to be vigilant of potential risks. Risks to Asia’s growth prospects could come fro...

Objective 1: Improved vulnerable groups’ and poor households’ access to and/or control of productive natural resources, financial and support services, and to social protection...

This report shows that the low labor force participation of women is intimately related to how they allocate time between market and nonmarket activities. Indeed, in deciding wh...