Quantifying the Care Economy in Mongolia
Throughout Asia and the Pacific, and indeed in much of the world, caring for children, the sick, and the aged is consigned to mothers, wives, and daughters. This care work,…
Economic Growth
Asia and the Pacific in 2024: Elections, Economics, and Geopolitics
Every January, we ask our country representatives in Asia and the Pacific to share their predictions for the year ahead. While prediction is an uncertain art, their forecasts suggest that…
Towards an Equitable and Integrated South Asia: Building Enabling Environments for Women in Trade – India Country Report
India has registered a two-fold year-on-year growth in exports in recent years and has set a target of USD 1 trillion in exports by 2025. However, India’s trade with other…
RAIDAR: Combating Information Disorder through Research, Collaboration, and Policy Engagement
On January 1, 2024, The Asia Foundation launched the Researching Asian Information Disorder and Responses (RAIDAR) initiative, a three-year program funded by the International Development Research Centre aiming to strengthen…
The Asia Foundation and The Australian Embassy Launch Second Phase of Ponlok Chomnes
On November 15, The Australian Embassy and The Asia Foundation announced the second phase of the Ponlok Chomnes: Data and Dialogue for Development in Cambodia program to strengthen Cambodia’s knowledge…
APAC Cybersecurity Fund
Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, is providing $15M to The Asia Foundation to launch the APAC Cybersecurity Fund in partnership with CyberPeace Institute and Global Cyber Alliance to bolster the cyber…
Nguyen Thu Hang
Nguyen Thu Hang is the Associate Program Specialist for The Asia Foundation’s Governance and Inclusive Growth team in Vietnam. She has fifteen years of experience designing and managing initiatives involving…
Care Imperatives for APEC Economies
Nearly five years after the adoption of the La Serena Roadmap for Women and Inclusive Growth at the APEC Women and the Economy Forum held in Chile in 2019, the…
A Strategic Roadmap for the Global Care Economy
The Asia Pacific region is the most unequal in the world when it comes to unpaid care, where women perform four times more unpaid care work than men. Recent crises…
Survey Reveals Changing Perceptions in Bangladesh’s Political, Economic, and Social Landscape
A just-published report—based on the survey titled “The State of Bangladesh’s Political Governance, Development, and Society,” jointly conducted by The Asia Foundation, Bangladesh, and BIGD of BRAC University—sheds light on…
The Asia Foundation’s Oporajita Team Visits Sweden for H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award Week
A team from The Asia Foundation’s Bangladesh office visited Stockholm, Sweden, on June 2023 to take part in H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award Week. The Foundation is operating as the…
The Current State and Role of Digital Technology Adoption in Tourism MSMEs in Cambodia
The majority of businesses in Cambodia are micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), which account for 99.9 percent of all businesses and a sizable portion of employment in the private…