Research

[Arabic] A primer on austerity’s history, impacts, and alternatives in the region

Austerity was projected to impact 6.7 billion people in 2023 or 85 percent of humanity and the population most likely...

[Russian] A primer on austerity’s history, impacts, and alternatives in the region

Austerity was projected to impact 6.7 billion people in 2023 or 85 percent of humanity and the population most likely...

Localizing Effective Development Cooperation Challenges and Strategies from Asia

Locally-led development (LLD) isincreasingly recognized as essential forachieving effective developmentcooperation (EDC) outcomes. This meansthat local actors must drive the priorities,strategies,...

A primer on austerity’s history, impacts, and alternatives in the region

Austerity was projected to impact 6.7 billion people in 2023 or 85 percent of humanity and the population most likely...

The Reality of Aid Report 2023

In the thirty years of existence of The Reality of Aid Network (RoA), our member organizations in Asia Pacific, Africa,...

Weaponizing Aid: How Aid Dependency Maintains Colonialism in Palestine

The world is witnessing protracted conflicts on various fronts, with themost prominent being the Russian-Ukraine war and the Israeli attacks...

Roadblocks to Accountability: Addressing the accessibility crisis in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s review of its Project-affected People’s mechanism

This report analyses the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s Independent AccountabilityMechanism, the Project-affected People’s Mechanism, now in its fifth year of...

World Bank’s Digitalization of Aid: Mutiplying risks and threats for women and girls?

In the wake of the pandemic,marginalized sectors have becomemore vulnerable, amid worsenedinequalities and widened gaps. Girlsand women are the most...

Beyond Asia Pacific, the AIIB and NDB in Latin America

China has been expandingits relations beyond Asia-Pacific,increasing investments and disbursingdevelopment finance to Latin Americaand the Caribbean as well as Africa.While...

Exploring the climate-conflict crossroads in Asia-Pacific

While the crisis of climatechange is of global concern, itsimpacts are disproportionately felt bydeveloping countries, fragile states,and marginalized communities.According to...

A Win for Whom? Widening ineequalities under the Belt and Road Initiative ‘s China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

Modeled after the Silk Road thathistorically connected China to otherparts in Asia and Europe for trade,China’s Belt and Road Initiative...

Policy Conditionality in the 21st Century: A close look at Development Policy Financing in Indonesia and the Philippines

Conditionality has been a consistent hallmark of World Bank loans beginning with its Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) that were first...