SOUTH ASIA Author:![]() Serve the Essentials: What Governments and Donors Must Do to Improve South Asia's Essential Services (2006) Oxfam International Foreword by Jean Drèze Executive Summary Download Full Report This report presents an insightful assessment of essential services in South Asia, with special focus on health and education. Read more Author: ![]() This report with a foreword by Martha Naussbaum used a gender lens to score and grade countries across South Asia on the basis of each country's abilities to nurture gender equality in education. This report originated in partnership with United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI) and will be launched by ASPBAE national coalitions and members across Nepal, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Download Report Forty percent of the world’s hungry people lived in South Asia even before the food price crisis of 2008. This report on the South Asian region was commissioned as part of a series to accompany the new Oxfam campaign to ‘GROW a Better Future’. Read more |