Several countries in Asia face significant health challenges ... Additionally, 44% of adults are overweight due to ...

With approximately 80 percent of the population reliant on subsistence agriculture, food insecurity is remarkably high compared to other sub-Saharan African countries. The poorest country in Asia ...

The 11 countries of Southeast Asia include over 550 million people ... Cambodia and Laos (among the poorest countries in the world), and prosperous Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. Nonetheless, the ...

One set of indicators—produced by the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) since 1980—suggests poor overall quality of governance in Asia relative to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...

The decline in extreme poverty was largely fueled by the rapid advances in two regions – East Asia and the Pacific and South Asia –specifically in China, Indonesia, and India. In 60 of 83 countries ...

And while some critics have attributed the trend to poor testing regimes ... world’s least impacted countries from a public health perspective”, the Southeast Asia Globe reports.

Economic reforms and growth Cambodia and the Lao PDR are the poorest countries in East Asia, with estimated annual GNP per capita in 1998 of $280 and $330, respectively. Social indicators are poor ...

In contrast, East Asia & Pacific has seen its societal poverty rate drop by 38 percentage points. Since 1990, societal poverty declined across all developing regions, but has remained stubbornly ...

Yet it often fails to happen this way. Well-known are the stories of corruption and missing money in poor countries in Asia, South America and Africa, as well as scenarios where rich Western ...

Learn about how Korea transformed itself from one of the poorest countries in the early 20th century to an economic giant in the early 21st century. Korean society has undergone a major transformation ...