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This article will be released in full online October 9, 2023. What is the state of health care in China? Wei Zhang analyzes the deep institutional issues that…

In terms of what the World Bank itself recommends, the country shouldn’t still be using the universal threshold - which yields a much lower (and more

Asia will be the furnace in which a new era is forged—and may experience heightened versions of global challenges.

The global Jobs Indicators database (JOIN) database was launched in 2019 to provide easily accessible and standardized indicators for labor market analysis with the goal of providing more reliable insights into the changing nature of jobs, employment structure, job quality, and wages in developing countries.

Developing Asia as a region has experienced rapid growth over the past three decades. What have these episodes of sustained growth meant for income inequality? Has the region had “inclusive growth,” meaning growth which saw incomes rise without inequality increasing, or has inequality gotten worse? To address this query, we delve into the determinants of inclusive growth across 16 developing Asian countries*, comparing them with other developing and developed nations.

The reduction of economic inequality in the world may aggravate environmental problems and accelerate the processes of global climate change, believe the UrFU economists with colleagues from other universities. Scientists assure that the growth of th

A country that is supposed to be “the Switzerland of Africa” has non-Swiss unemployment poverty rates and is one of three SADC countries with the highest

Lessons from Asia on aquaculture growth potential amid resource and climate challenges

In this detailed article, we will discuss countries that are hit with the worst poverty rates in the world and try to understand what makes their economic situation so frail.

Only 21% of Pakistani population uses the internet reports the World Bank