This report looks systematically at the impact on development financing of countries’ transition from low- to middle-income status. It includes eight case studies: Egypt, Ghana, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

This report seeks to provide a framework to measure the nexus between gender and the environment. It outlines the key issues and associated indicators used for tracking and analysing those issues.

More must be done to protect women, men and children from sexual and gender-based violence after disasters, say the authors of this report.

250 million children under the age of 5 years who live in low-income or middle-income countries are at risk of not reaching their developmental potential. Significant cognitive delay in early childhood is associated with low ‘school readiness’, poor educational attainment, unemployment, social exclusion, poor health...

The Government of Lao PDR is committed to using tourism to promote sustainable economic development. It’s approach is to encourage independent travellers to pioneer new patterns, then to assist local communities to participate in enterprise around these patterns.

This report presents a feasibility study into an East Asia Summit (EAS) Regional Facility for Education Quality Assessment (RFEQA). The project was developed partly in response to major findings of the 2008 study Harnessing Educational Cooperation in the EAS for Regional Competitiveness and Community Building...

This report documents the findings and recommendations of the review of three trade and development projects undertaken in the Greater Mekong sub-region. The broad purpose of the review was to identify how the selected projects have contributed to increasing access to markets for local producers.