...on Freedom House’s scoring index. Recounting the ballots in the Jakarta governor’s election of 2017. The rancorous election was marked by intense sectarianism and identity politics, and public dissatisfaction prompted...
...in all three cities, which will ultimately feed into a “safe city index” that compares safety perceptions of women in Bhopal, Gwalior, and Jodhpur. Having this data, along with a...
In this issue: Launch of the 2019 Survey of the Afghan People, Role of Women in Afghanistan, Mongolia, Laos, The Myanmar Business Environment Index, Livable Cities Forum, Policy Reform in...
...population to other parts of the country. UNDP’s 2017 Human Development Report ranked FATA lowest in the country on its human development index (HDI). The merger of FATA with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa...
...and energy issues through organizing workshops, attending climate change talks, and producing policy briefings. We also created an index to rank cities annually based on their environmental governance and qualities....
...moving women from the informal workforce to the formal sector. India’s standing on the gender equality index in terms of human development is very low, yet it has significantly increased...
Last year, the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index ranked India 108 out of 145 countries. India’s neighbors have fared better in this ranking – Bangladesh is ranked 64th and...
...Region in Muslim Mindanao We sat down with consummate numbers-guy Ville Peltovuori in “How’s Business? We have a Benchmark for That” to talk about the Myanmar Business Environment Index, a...
...in Practice paper series, and can be downloaded here. Barron also wrote for the Diplomat this week on the 2015 Global Terrorism Index and lessons from Thailand and the Philippines....
This piece was originally published on January 13 by The Diplomat. The 2015 Global Terrorism Index was recently launched by the Institute of Economics and Peace. The timing of the...
...Covid Early Release Program Provides Unexpected Possibilities for Youthful Offenders in Indonesia Pacific Island Nations: The Pacific Covid-19 Infodemic Myanmar: Myanmar Business Environment Index 2020: Measuring Economic Governance for Private...
...even in the absence of a disaster. Measures that reduce disaster risk increase economic confidence and encourage investment, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Mexico’s CADENA program, for example, showed that weather-indexed insurance...
...only in India but is an Asia wide phenomenon. A recent report Doing Good Index 2018, published by a Hong Kong-based research and advisory organization, the Centre for Asian Philanthropy...
...lead to an improvement in the state of democracy in South Korea. (In 2015, South Korea’s status as a “full democracy” on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index was lowered...
...are working to preserve its natural beauty and protect the environment, and the Island Council is one of the top-scoring island councils in the Local Government Authority’s performance index. AARU...
...Despite the heat, a mask gripped my face, not to stave off the waning pandemic, but to protect me from the choking pollution. The air quality index stood at a...
In this issue: The Myanmar Business Environment Index 2019, South Korea, Satellite Broadband Service in the Philippines, Timor-Leste’s Democratic Journey, Green Growth in Pakistan, The Gender Lab Boys Program, Afghanistan-Pakistan...
...applied to other Asian megacities, which is that water governance is critical to sustainable urban water management. According to Siemens Asian Green Cities Index, which rates major cities, including 22...
