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  • Development Asia—Tackling Asia's Inequality: Creating Opportunities for the Poor

    December 2008

    Serien series Development Asia
    One worrisome trend in Asia is growing inequality—the rich are getting richer much faster than the poor. This issue of Development Asia was brought into sharp focus with the current financial turmoil, which is having a much greater impact on the poor than the rich. How much should inequality be a cause for alarm, if at all? What are the implications of a widening social divide? Should governments Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Development Asia—Dealing with Disasters

    January–March 2011

    Serien series Development Asia
    Natural disasters wreak havoc without discrimination, wiping out homes, livelihoods, a country's economic gains, and often many individual lives. Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe have all been struck by catastrophes in recent years. Asia, however, has been hit hardest: 40% of the world's disasters have occurred in the region in the past decade, resulting in a disproportionate 80% of disaster Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Development Asia—Lighting the Future

    September 2010

    Serien series Development Asia
    If one question could threaten Asia's dynamic growth and impressive gains in poverty reduction in recent decades, it is the region's energy supply. The complex issues that encompass energy security are vital for ensuring a region's economic growth. It is not just a matter of maintaining the supply of energy that Asia needs to fuel its growth. The region must also navigate the treacherous waters of Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Development Asia—Urban Planning Laboratory

    January–March 2010

    Serien series Development Asia
    The rise of Asia's megacities is the upshot of robust economic growth in the region. In turn, the expansion of these centers of industry and commerce is fueling further growth, opening more opportunities for business and employment. With six out of 10 of the world's largest cities in Asia—and eight out of 10 of the most densely populated—the continent will be the world's de facto laboratory for Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Development Asia—Can Asia Unite to Weather the Storm?

    April 2009

    Serien series Development Asia
    The global economic crisis has swept across Asia and brought into sharp focus attempts by nations to cooperate and to integrate their economies. In many ways, the financial crisis of the late 1990s led to the formation of regional cooperation mechanisms to stabilize markets and currencies in times of turmoil. Now these initiatives are being tested. In the third edition of Development Asia, William Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Development Asia—The Hunt for Jobs

    August 2009

    Serien series Development Asia
    While economists and government officials assess the impact of the global economic downturn on Asia, millions of laid-off workers and recent college graduates face the real guesswork of figuring out how they are going to make a living. Indeed, lines of job seekers are lengthening across Asia, as the global crisis causes export markets to shrink and the high-flying, export-driven economies that Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Development Asia—Climate Change: The Fight for Asia's Future

    June 2008

    Serien series Development Asia
    Development Asia aims to make a significant contribution to raising awareness and understanding of the issues that matter most today. It is not an academic journal; nor is it a publication that presents the views of the Asian Development Bank. It is intended as a forum for debate and discussion, reflecting different views of the most topical and complex development issues in the region. This Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Development Asia—A Growing Hunger

    April–June 2010

    Serien series Development Asia
    Perhaps no issue casts a harsher light on social inequities than the growing number of people who go hungry everyday. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), more people go hungry in the world today than at any time since 1970. An estimated 1.02 billion people were undernourished worldwide in 2009, 642 million of whom lived in Asia and the Pacific, the FAO Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Development Asia—Deepening Divide: Can Asia Beat the Menace of Rising Inequality?

    April 2013

    Serien series Development Asia
    Development Asia examines Asia's widening inequality from many different perspectives. It looks at the role of globalization in producing inequality, and considers the disputed relationship between inequality and economic growth. Beneath the gloss of Asia's newfound prosperity lies an unsettling reality. Rising inequality has denied the benefits of Asia's economic growth to many millions of its Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Development Asia—Beyond the MDGs

    November 2013

    Serien series Development Asia
    This issue of Development Asia discusses the post-2015 development agenda and its implications for Asia and the Pacific. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have served humanity well. They galvanized global attention for helping the world's poor and vulnerable. In less than 3 years, a new development agenda will take up the challenge of delivering a sustainable future for humanity. The Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Development Asia—Going Green

    January–March 2012

    Serien series Development Asia
    This edition of Development Asia explores the concept of green growth: the embracing of environmentally sound and sustainable policies with the need to maintain high economic growth. It features an exclusive interview with leading expert Ashok Khosla, who takes a hard look at the promises and failings of green growth. In other stories, we look at pioneering efforts to deliver medicine through a Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Development Asia—From Aceh to Tacloban

    May 2014

    Serien series Development Asia
    Development Asia looks at the lessons learned from a decade of dealing with natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific and at how the region’s economic growth could suffer unless it acts collectively on disaster risk. Natural disasters are frequent and unwelcome visitors to Asia. Nowhere else does nature’s fury strike with such frightening regularity, wiping out families, destroying homes and Lesen Sie mehr

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