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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.