New center responds to the region’s development and policy challenges by turning evidence and practical experience into actionable insight SAN FRANCISCO, September 29, 2026 — The Asia Foundation (TAF) ...

Gopa Kumar Thampi is a governance practitioner and strategist whose work over more than three decades has focused on a deceptively simple question: how can public institutions work better for the ...

Effective public policies and institutions are essential for creating public goods, fostering social trust, mitigating drivers of conflict from interpersonal to international levels, and ultimately ...

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Seti Maya is a widow living and working on land managed by a Community Forest User Group when the April 2015 Gorkha earthquake struck. The house she lived in with her three children collapsed, ...

Far from being a problem restricted to the periphery, Myanmar’s subnational conflicts are widespread and shape many of the country’s most pressing national challenges. Subnational conflicts directly ...

In Sri Lanka, women, particularly those from marginalized communities, face significant challenges in entering and succeeding in the labor force. They face a denial of employment, wage gaps, workplace ...

The leather sector is one of the oldest industries in Bangladesh, and tanneries are the dominant employer, accounting for 92 percent of all leather workers. As a source of national export earnings, ...

Since the adoption of Nepal’s landmark federal constitution in 2015, a new federal civil service law has been among the most-anticipated legislative actions. Without it, civil servants across Nepal’s ...

What do Thais think about foreign policy? Understandably, this question assumes that any response would come directly or indirectly from Thai officials, policymakers, or politicians and that such ...

It’s been called “the miracle on the Han River,” South Korea’s meteoric rise from one of the world’s poorest countries in the 1950s to one of the world’s richest today. In a single generation, Korea ...

Launched in 2023, Go Digital ASEAN 2 provided digital skills training to 215,896 MSMEs across the region, helping them build digital literacy, financial acumen, and online safety awareness to grow ...