Asia’s poor urban children left out of disaster prevention
The study reveals that street and slum children are the most vulnerable to environmental hazards, climate change and natural disasters – with girls at particular risk. But aid agencies often … Continue reading
Prevalence of and factors associated with non-partner rape perpetration
Jewkes at al – Our study provides evidence from a large multicountry study that non-partner rape perpetration is quite prevalent among men in the general population across a range of diverse … Continue reading
Serious threat to Asian Economic Model
Martin Khor – The Western countries are increasingly attacking the Asian model, claiming that state-owned companies or state-aided commercial firms have an unfair advantage vis-à-vis the foreign firms competing with them…Of … Continue reading
Head of the Dragon: The Rise of New Shanghai
Daniel Brook – As it did a century ago, the city’s embrace of modernity is breeding groups that will be hard to control. There is only so far the gap … Continue reading
Asia and the middle-income trap
A review of how per capita income has changed since 1970 relative to income in the United States tells us something about the risk of the middle-income trap in different … Continue reading
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