By increasing GDP and creating new income- and employment-generation opportunities particularly for vulnerable communities–international trade can promote human development.

The 2015 National Human Development Report “Growth that works for all” examines how a policy framework based on inclusive growth can offer a pathway to advance human development in Viet Nam - as it enters a new and challenging stage of its development.

26 April, 2016 - 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.

This National Human Development Report (NHDR) of Mongolia -the sixth in the se-ries – focuses on youth. Through the me-dium of the human development approach, it analyses the opportunities, choices and challenges facing young people in Mongo-lia today.

This document – Malaysia’s first Human Development Report – elects Inclusive Growth as its theme.

Papua New Guinea (PNG) stands at a critical moment in its development.

The second National Human Development Report for the Maldives – ‘Bridging the divide: addressing vulnerability and inequality’ – finds that ensuring equitable distribution of developmental gains amongst the Maldivian people has proved to be a challenge.

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This Report focuses on the productive abilities of the regions, households and

Thailand’s National Human Development Report 2014 Human Development through the ASEAN Community, cast a spotlight on the implications of the country’s entry into the Association of SouthEast Asian Nations on December 31st, 2015.