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Asian Development Outlook 2017 Update: Sustaining Development Through Public-Private Partnership
Update on financial forecast for developing Asia.
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Rome Declaration on World Food Security
Strategic Objectives and Commitments and Actions for World Food Security.
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Global Education Monitoring Report Gender Review 2018: Meeting our Commitments to Gender Equality in Education
In this sixth Gender Review, in a series that began in 2011, the Global Education Monitoring Report team maintains the focus on a broad conception of gender equality that...
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Gender and Extreme Poverty
While many data gaps remain, we know that women are vulnerable to extreme poverty because they face greater burdens of unpaid work, have fewer assets and productive resources...
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Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity
This book shines a spotlight on the value of voice and agency, the patterns of constraints that limit their realization, and the associated costs, not only to individual women...
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Unbreakable: Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters
This report moves beyond asset and production losses and focuses instead on how natural disasters affect people’s well-being. Here, natural disaster risk and losses are measured...
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Nature-Based Solutions for Building Resilient Cities
These examples from the Greater Mekong Subregion demonstrate approaches of immediate relevance for other towns and regions throughout Asia with extensive coastlines, riverine...
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The Lower Mekong Dams Factsheet Text
The governments of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam are planning to build eleven large hydropower dams on the Lower Mekong River. If built, these dams would destroy the...
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ASEAN 4.0: What does the Fourth Industrial Revolution mean for regional economic integration?
This paper focuses on the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The Fourth Industrial Revolution refers to a set of...
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Asia SME Finance Monitor 2014
The ASM reviews various aspects of SME finance within different countries. These aspects include the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. The main objectives of...
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Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Report of the Secretary-General
Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 70/1, the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the United Nations system, has the honour to submit the report on progress towards the...
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Generating Sustainable Energy Solutions in the Mekong River Basin
Negative effects brought on by the poor planning for hydropower development in the Mekong basin will put the 60 million people living in the Mekong basin at risk and severely...
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Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda For Sustainable Development
This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. Eradicating poverty in all its forms and...
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The state of the world's children report 2015 statistical tables
UNICEF's most recent key statistics on child survival, development and protection for the world’s countries, areas and regions. The statistical tables in this volume support...
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Proportion of Urban Population Living in Slums
On 1 January 2016, the world officially began implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—the transformative plan of action based on 17 Sustainable Development...
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Population density from 1995 to 2000 Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia
Population density of Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam based on data from the World Data Bank. This dataset also includes a visualization of the data using...
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UNDP-funded extensive research work to identify the conditions to promote sustainable fuelwood and charcoal production and consumption in Cambodia
Over the past five months, GERES Cambodia’s Sector Leader Climate & Development conducted a consulting mission for UNDP about a core topic for GERES: Woodfuels Value Chains...
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Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2015: SDG 12 Responsible Consumption
The Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2015 is a reference of current and emerging trends of economic, social and environmental development in Asia and the Pacific....
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Food Systems and Natural Resources
The authors provide solid evidence on the need to transition to more ‘resource-smart food systems’, an imperative for the achievement of at least 12 out of the 17 Sustainable...
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Food Security
Policy brief on food security.