Private Cities

Yue Li, Martin Rama

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia Development Forum
• Institutional constraints and weak capacity often hamper the ability of local governments in developing countries to steer urbanization. As a result, ... Lees meer

Hidden Potential

Maurizio Bussolo, Siddharth Sharma

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia Development Forum
• Informality remains widespread in South Asia despite decades of economic growth. The low earnings and high vulnerability in the informal sector make t... Lees meer

Ready to Learn

Tara Beteille, Namrata Tognatta, Michelle Riboud

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia Development Forum
• Countries that have sustained rapid growth over decades have typically had a strong public commitment to expanding education as well as to improving l... Lees meer

In the Dark

Fan Zhang

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia Development Forum
• Electricity shortages are among the biggest barriers to South Asia's development. Did you know that 30 percent of households in South Asia are not con... Lees meer

Glass Half Full

World Bank, Sanjay Kathuria

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia Development Forum
• Trade has played a critical role in global poverty reduction. In harnessing the potential of trade, some of the most successful countries have develop... Lees meer

Exports to Jobs

Erhan Artuc, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia Development Forum
• South Asia has grown fast and poverty has fallen across most countries in the region. The performance has been less impressive on the exports front. D... Lees meer

The Converging Technology Revolution and Human Capital

Sajitha Bashir, Carl Dahlman, Naoto Kanehira

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia Development Forum
• South Asia is heavily impacted by the devastating loss of lives and human capital from the COVID-19 pandemic and the converging technology revolution ... Lees meer

Regional Investment Pioneers in South Asia

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia Development Forum
• This report is framed within the same context as its predecessor, ?A Glass Half Full: The Promise of Regional Trade in South Asia," namely, the sub-op... Lees meer

Violence Against Women and Girls

Jennifer L Solotaroff, Rohini Prabha Pande, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia Development Forum
• "This report documents the dynamics of violence against women in South Asia across the life cycle, from early childhood to old age. It explores the di... Lees meer

From Jobs to Careers

Mexico Vergara Bahena, Stacey Frederick, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Robertson Raymond

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia Development Forum
• The Report shifts the paradigm of how we think of women's participation in the labor force by demonstrating the importance of the distinction between ... Lees meer