This desk review explores the links between infrastructure development and women's time poverty in Asia and the Pacific by drawing on time-use data and reviewing existing research and evidence from impact evaluations. Three questions are asked: (i) What contribution does infrastructure make in reducing women's time poverty, and how is this being recorded? (ii) Are women's time savings resulting from increased access to infrastructure used for productive work that also reduces consumption poverty? (iii) Can infrastructure projects more effectively reduce both time and consumption poverty for...

This publication records the proceedings of the fourth Roundtable of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chief justices and their designees, held on 12-14 December 2014, in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. Eminent speakers and participants shared their insights on the judiciary's role in protecting the environment, particularly in addressing the region's environmental challenges. The ASEAN judiciaries reviewed their progress made in implementing A Common Vision on Environment for ASEAN Judiciaries (or the -Jakarta Common Vision-) and further deliberated on the Proposed Ha Noi Action Plan to...