Conservation Captive elephant tourism in Asia: Hope for Asian elephants or a threat? December 10, 2019 0 Image Credit: Thai Elephant, Dave Bezaire Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 Written by Jan Schmidt-Burbach. Malee, a 25-year-old female Asian elephant, is using her trunk…
Asia Targeted financial solutions to address India’s agricultural crisis November 18, 2019 0 Image Credit: India-Onion Irrigation, IWMI Flickr Photos/Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Sourajit Aiyer. India is in a quandary. Two years of…
Conservation Deforestation, climate change and indigenous people October 2, 2019 0 Image credit:fuel wood-charcoal by rosamariavidal/Flickr, Licence:CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 . Written by Patricia Blazey Addressing climate change is a complex problem that does not just depend…
China Income and poverty in China and the findings of Jacob Shapiro and Qin Gao: A commentary July 19, 2019 0 Written by Peter M. Foggin. Image Credit: Just Behind My Building by Kyle Taylor/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Recently, China’s official English language newspaper, the…
conflict Why Filipinos have come to embrace authoritarian ‘discipline’ July 3, 2019 1 Written by Wataru Kusaka. Image Credit: Rodrigo Duterte ภาพจาก by Prachatai/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. With no opposition candidates winning a single senatorial seat, President Rodrigo Duterte…
China Towards a new understanding of ageing and care in urban China March 12, 2019 0 Written by Jason Powell. There has been a wide range of academic monographs and articles published recently on ageing and care in Asia. Much of…
Globalisation Asian inequality: A model country with a growing problem September 18, 2018 0 Written by Niyati Pingali What does poverty feel like? What does it sound like? And more importantly, what does it look like? For many, the…
China Inequality in China: Population Counts and Spatial Price Differences, September 13, 2018 1 Written by John Gibson A common perception is that economic inequality in China has risen during the reform era that began in 1978. This claim…
Inequality Rising Inequality in Laos September 12, 2018 0 Written by Jayant Menon, ADB Rising inequality in both rich and poor countries has attracted attention from economists, politicians, International Monetary Fund and even the…
Cambodia Poverty alleviation and income inequality in Cambodia: balancing “growth” and “development” September 11, 2018 3 Written by Serey Sok and Nyda Chhinh Cambodia’s growing population (14.7 million in 2013) is steadily becoming more urbanized, standing at 19.5% in 2008 to…
