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 ...

A recent analysis by the U.N. children’s agency found that more than 500 million children in East Asia and Pacific countries breathe unhealthy air and the pollution is linked to the deaths of 100 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As one of the poorest countries in Europe and Central Asia, Moldova needs to continue its progress by addressing structural challenges. Moldova has experienced rapid economic growth in the past decade ...

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 ...

This is true of China and India since they embraced trade liberalization and other market-oriented reforms, and also of higher-income countries in Asia—like Korea and Singapore—that were themselves ...