‘I matter’: giving unemployed young Papua New Guineans a second chance
Young people account for almost half of Papua New Guinea’s population and comprise a large part of the urban poor. In the capital, Port Moresby, an increasing number of young people are leaving school...
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1999: Financing and investing in the world’s most sparsely populated country
Continuing with our series of 25 years in 25 days, today we look at 1999. Mongolia’s economy grew by just over 3%, and inflation checked in at the relatively modest rate of 7.6%. In 1991, under the...
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On International Women’s Day, 5 facts about gender and the law in the Pacific...
There is a lot that development practitioners don’t know about the Pacific Islands. When it comes to the laws of these small island nations scattered throughout the ocean separating Asia and the...
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1998: Mongolia’s financial, formal, and informal sectors
Continuing with our series of 25 years in 25 days, today we look at 1998. It was another year of modest growth, with agriculture and services making up for the continued decline of the industrial...
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1997: Stabilization at the heart of policy choices
As we continue traveling on our 25-day journey through our 25 years’ history, today we look back at the year 1997. Before digging into what the economic and social situation of the country looked like...
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Malnutrition denies children opportunity and stunts economic development
Nearly 50 years ago, books such as Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into The Poverty Of Nations, by the Swedish economist and Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal, offered a dire prediction of famine and poverty for...
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1996: Taking stock of the profile of the poor, and the state of state...
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1995: Helping implement Mongolia’s Poverty Alleviation Program
Photo courtesy of WB Group Archives Growth picked up to 6.4% in 1995, but it was a short-lived acceleration—it would be another eight years before Mongolia reached that level of growth again. The...
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1994: Assessing the real costs of the economic contraction
Today we look at 1994. At last the economic collapse of the early 1990s bottomed out and growth resumed. The economic hardship of the first years of transition, however, had taken its toll. A study...
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1993: Attention turns to Mongolia’s nascent private sector
Continuing with our reflections on the 25 year partnership between Mongolia and the World Bank, today we look at 1993. With GDP having fallen 20% since the transition began, and with an ambitious...
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Myanmar’s opportunity: Investing in all its people
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1991: Live-blogging Mongolia’s 25 year partnership with the World Bank, one...
Photo courtesy of The World Bank Group Archives As part of our series of 25 years in 25 days, we start with 1991, the year Mongolia joined the World Bank, IFC, and IDA. The Articles of Agreement were...
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How to scale up financial inclusion in ASEAN countries
Globally, around 2 billion people do not use formal financial services. In Southeast Asia, there are 264 million adults who are still “unbanked”; many of them save their money under the mattress and...
View ArticleMalaysia’s long race to competitiveness
Have you ever felt like you are in a race and each time you pass another competitor, more keep showing up ahead on the race track in an endless marathon? Well, countries striving to be competitive face...
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สังคมสูงวัยในประเทศไทย – ใช้ชีวิตอย่างไรให้มั่งคั่งและยั่งยืน
ประเทศในอาเซียนกำลังก้าวเข้าสู่สังคมสูงวัย โดยเฉพาะประเทศไทยซึ่งมีจำนวนผู้สูงอายุเพิ่มขึ้นอย่างรวดเร็ว ในขณะนี้มีประชากรไทยที่มีอายุ 65 ปีหรือแก่กว่ามีจำนวนมากถึงร้อยละ 10 หรือมากกว่า 7 ล้านคน...
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Aging in Thailand – How to live long and prosper
Asian societies are aging, and Thailand is aging rapidly. Already over 10 percent of the Thai population, or more than 7 million people, are 65 years old or older. By 2040, a projected 17 million...
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快速老龄化的东亚地区怎样才能保持其经济活力？
过去三十年来，东亚地区收获了人口红利。大量且不断增长的劳动力对上世纪六十至九十年代人均收入增长的贡献接近三分之一，使得该地区成为全球增长引擎。 当前，东亚地区正面临另一个人口趋势构成的挑战：人口快速老龄化。新发布的一份世界银行报告发现，东亚和太平洋地区人口老龄化速度和规模均位于全球各地区首位。...
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How can rapidly aging East Asia sustain its economic dynamism?
In the last three decades, East Asia has reaped the demographic dividend. An abundant and growing labor force powered almost one-third of the region’s per capita income growth from the 1960s to the...
View ArticleHIV in the Philippines: Up close and personal
As a nurse manager assigned to the Taguig City Social Hygiene Clinic and Drop-In Center for more than a year now, I have gone through unpredictable, funny, scary, sad, happy, thrilling and worthwhile...
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