Reducing Poverty Requires Empowering Women's Bank Accounts, Skills, and Support Groups Empowering women to take greater control over their resources would give them the tools for lifelong change.
Expanding Social Protection in the Pacific Stronger institutions and policies can help broaden the coverage and benefits of social protection spending.
Tracking Asia's Progress in Strengthening Social Protection Systems Social protection spending and coverage are increasing, yet some countries continue to favor the nonpoor over the poor, and men over women.
Identifying Business Opportunities for NGOs This piece answers how civil society organizations can collaborate with ADB in its efforts to effectively and sustainably reduce poverty.
Striking a Balance between P2P Lending Regulation and Innovation Promoting responsible lending practices on online peer-to-peer platforms builds market trust and deters the need for further regulation.
Sustaining Economic Growth and Social Security in Aging Economies Policy responses to population aging should promote economic growth, higher productivity, and higher income for workers.
Implications of Improving Credit Rehabilitation for Low-Income Borrowers In easing the debt burden of economically vulnerable groups, measures should be taken to prevent creditor resistance and moral hazard among borrowers.
How Asia Can Close the Social Protection Gap by 2030 A study looks at how countries can mobilize sustainable financing to reduce vulnerability among the poor and provide them access to social protection schemes.
Participation Tools for the Pacific - Part 6: Monitoring and Evaluation Appreciative Inquiry, Most Significant Change, Social Audit are activities that can be used to engage stakeholders in project evaluation.
Participation Tools for the Pacific - Part 5: Implementation Community Radio, Participatory Action Research, and Television Drama are some of the implementation tools for communications and behaviour change.