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Key takeaways: The Lao fiscal system in 2018 was progressive and helped reduce inequality. The net effect of fiscal interventions moderately reduces inequality while the total...

In Asia and the Pacific Region, WFP provides a wide range of strategic and technical support and capacity strengthening services across 17 countries, with a view to improving the coverage, comprehensiveness...

This synthesis report presents an updated analysis of the social protection landscape in Asia and the Pacific and identifies priorities for enhancing both food security and nutrition and improving responses to risks...

This interactive report reflects on WFP’s response to hunger and malnutrition across Asia and the Pacific in 2022, amid a flood of new and existing challenges. In 2022, unparalleled challenges drove...

Highlights: Part A of the report presents recent economic developments and outlook, alongside with policy options to address the situation. Part B on the report analyses the impacts of macroeconomic...

Rising fuel and food prices are undermining both purchasing power and poverty reduction. While domestic labor market conditions are expected to improve gradually...

The Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit December 7-8, 2021 comes at a critical time: mid-way through the United Nations (UN) Decade of Action on Nutrition, we...

Compounding the COVID-19 pandemic is a looming debt crisis for low- and middle-income countries where a growing debt burden threatens to crowd out social spending for children. This policy...

This collection of sustainable land management (SLM) technologies and approaches was compiled as part of the Scaling-up SLM practices by smallholder farmers project funded by IFAD. Sustainable land...

Lao PDR’s economic growth is projected to decline in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and measures to contain its spread, to 1 percent in the baseline scenario and negative...