High food prices have put increasing inflationary pressures across the Asia-Pacific region and threatened food security.

High food prices have put increasing inflationary pressures across the South Asian region and threatened food security.

This paper analyses the effect of public and private health expenditures on the achievement of health-related MDGs.

This paper estimates the impact of the high food prices of 2010 on income poverty and the achievement of MDG 1 in Asia and the Pacific. It also estimates the impacts of high price during 2011 under various scenarios for the prices of food and oil.

Catastrophes caused by natural hazards that hit “without warning” serve as grim reminders of the challenge that governments and civil society face in identifying and protecting the areas that are at risk of extreme events.