Tag: Economy

The practice has become so widespread in the western city of Herat that a nearby settlement is bleakly nicknamed "one kidney village"

Bananatex uses leaves from banana trees in the Philippines to make bags, T-shirts and a line of shoes for H&M that sold out within two hours

Resorts and seafood restaurants say the spill is a "nail in the coffin" for their businesses in the midst of the pandemic

The region’s billionaires, however, grew their wealth by US$1.46 trillion, leading to a staggering rise in inequality

About 26.14 million Filipinos live below the poverty threshold, estimated at US$242, during the first half of 2021

The rate of informal employment across the region is on average 68% of the workforce

The United Nations predicts half of Afghanistan's population could run out of food during the long, cold winter

The pandemic hammered the kingdom's tourism-reliant economy, which last year saw its worst performance since the 1997 Asian financial crisis

The kingdom is expecting the return of at least a million visitors by March and to generate about US$30 billion in revenue through 2022

Business closures and job losses pushed more than 230 million Indians into poverty in the past year