Demographic change in Asia and the Pacific is happening at a rate the world has never seen. An explosion in the working age population and a fall in birth rates that took a century in Europe are happening here in just 30 years.

OECD Factbook 2015-2016 is a comprehensive and dynamic statistical publication from the OECD.

This food policy report is a response to growing concerns about the impacts of climate change on Latin American economies, agriculture, and people.

This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since 2005 has been much faster than the earlier decade, as a result of broad-based growth across most geographic areas. Underlying this is a pattern of high mobility in economic status that has led to an emerging middle class.

This fourth edition of the African Governance Report focuses on the importance of measuring corruption and of understanding its international dimensions. The report challenges the traditionally narrow notion of corruption as the “abuse of public office for private gain”.

Rising emission of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and growing economic inequalities have emerged as key challenges for policymakers over the past two decades and the problems are likely to intensify in the foreseeable future. Numerous studies in the past have examined the relationship between these and implications on growth and equity of nations.

This working paper explores the current development pattern of Senegal from geographical and economic perspectives, and its impact on climate vulnerability.

Sustainable urbanization is known to be a vehicle for national economic and social transformation.

African countries are in the process of upgrading and promoting the development of higher-productivity sectors, including manufacturing and high-end services.