Poverty and precarity

The Asia and Pacific region continued to grow despite a difficult external global environment.

This publication reviews recent developments in East Asian local currency bond markets along with the outlook, risks, and policy options.

The Asia and Pacific region experienced continued growth.

The Asia and Pacific region continued to grow despite a difficult external global environment.

The first edition of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Monitor tracks the development of the PPP business environment as well as the challenges of doing PPPs in nine of the developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB): Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

The Climate Change Operational Framework 2017-2030 is intended to provide broad direction and guidance for enhancing resilience and strengthening climate actions in the operations and business processes of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

This issue highlights the economic prospects of the Pacific developing member countries (Pacific DMCs) and stresses the importance of improving the quality and access to basic and sustainable utilities in the Pacific DMCs.

This issue explores how Pacific developing member countries can strengthen their post-pandemic social protection systems to help address long-standing development concerns and boost resilience to further shocks.

Providing access to clean water continues to be a challenge for governments.

Asia proved resilient to the effects of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, but sustaining rapid growth became more difficult afterward.

Electricity shortages in South Asia are adversely impacting the region's socioeconomic development.

This publication reviews recent developments in East Asian local currency bond markets along with the outlook, risks, and policy options.

When the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established in 1966, the Asia and Pacific region was undergoing a process of deep change.

This is a pivotal period in Sri Lanka's economic development.

La obra de Isabel Núñez refleja algunas estrategias que emplea el Estado moderno neoliberal como forma de control y de acumulación por despojo que viven las mujeres y los hombres jóvenes en el barrio de Tepito.

Die wahren Früchte des ZornsJulia und Milt betreiben mit ihren Töchtern eine Farm im unwirtlichen Westen Oklahomas.

With climate change and the environment making headlines on an almost-daily basis, followers of Christ can find themselves asking, "e;What's my role in this?

With climate change and the environment making headlines on an almost-daily basis, followers of Christ can find themselves asking, "e;What's my role in this?

And here I am.

Now a major new stage play 'Punch' by James Graham?

Why do some development projects succeed where others fail?

»Ein absolut großartiges Buch.

This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post World War II period and continuing up through the present.

I, Lorna Tucker, have lived a life that most of you can't even begin to imagine.

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.

At the end of 1795 Jeremy Bentham, the English Utilitarian philosopher and reformer, began to compose a far-reaching plan.

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults.

For nearly four decades, China's manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work.

For nearly four decades, China's manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work.

Following the highly respected first volume, this book continues to provide a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik's vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Actionable, road-tested approaches to understanding and tackling poverty in schoolsThe stark reality of poverty and disadvantage in our communities is one of the biggest challenges faced by schools today.

This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post World War II period and continuing up through the present.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.