Asia

More from the Series

Blog Post
Note to G7: Now Is the Time to Support Rohingyas and Their Hosts
Cindy Huang
June 08, 2018
Bangladesh is hosting nearly one million Rohingya refugees—mostly crowded into in one of the country’s less-developed areas, Cox’s Bazar. A minority population in Myanmar, stripped of citizenship in the 1980s, the Rohingya have been denied access to education, meaningful livelihood...
CGD NOTES
Unequal Ventures: Results from a Baseline Study of Gender and Entrepreneurship in East Java, Indonesia
Mayra Buvinic
and
Firman Witoelar
April 30, 2018
A study of women and men business owners in East Java offers a unique opportunity to analyze characteristics of entrepreneurs and their businesses by gender for a country where such systematic data are scarce. The study is one of two randomized controlled trials launched in 2015 to assess the power ...
BRIEFS
Unequal Ventures: Baseline Study of Gender and Entrepreneurship in East Java, Indonesia (Factsheet)
Mayra Buvinic
and
Tanvi Jaluka
April 26, 2018
Women own a large and growing proportion of businesses in Indonesia, estimated at over half of all micro, small, and medium enterprises. However, women’s economic outcomes are not equal to those of men. 
BRIEFS
A Bangladesh Compact: Beyond Aid Solutions for Rohingya Refugees and Host Communities
Cindy Huang
April 17, 2018
Bangladesh is providing an immense global public good, hosting more than 688,000 Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar since August 2017.
Blog Post
Vietnam’s Exceptional Learning Success: Can We Do That Too?
Maryam Akmal
April 09, 2018
In the last international PISA assessment for math and science, Vietnam outperformed many developed countries, including the UK and the US. Yet Vietnam only has a small fraction of the GDP of these countries. Should other countries with similar income levels, such as Indonesia, be asking themselves:...
BRIEFS
Mindful Saving: Exploring the Power of Savings for Women (Factsheet)
Mayra Buvinic
and
Tanvi Jaluka
March 22, 2018
Mobile savings hold great promise for empowering women entrepreneurs. Women are often disproportionately burdened by high transaction costs to access savings accounts.
CGD NOTES
Mindful Saving: Exploring the Power of Savings for Women
Mayra Buvinic
and
Tanvi Jaluka
March 22, 2018
Mobile savings hold great promise, because they can considerably reduce transaction costs that can be unduly heavy for women. Two questions guide us: how can we encourage more women microentrepreneurs to access formal savings accounts, and is mobile saving a particularly fitting solution? This serie...