East Asia and Pacific
- Health-financing reforms in seven South East Asian countries
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Health-financing reforms in seven South East Asian countries are reviewed in this study. These countries have sought to reduce dependence on out-of-pocket payments, increase pooled health finance, and expand services, stepping towards universal coverage. The author underlines that expanding coverage of good-quality services and ensuring adequate human resources are important to achieve universal coverage.
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- Peacemaking in Asia and the Pacific: Women's Participation, Perspectives and Priorities
- C. Buchanan / Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2011
- Ensuring women's fair representation and diverse contributions to peacemaking remains a major challenge. This publication explores the reasons for women’s under-representation in peace processes, both...
- Low carbon green growth roadmap for Asia and the Pacific: turning resource constraints and the climate crisis into economic growth opportunities
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific , 2012
- This publication explores the opportunities that a low carbon green growth path offers to Asia and the Pacific region. It articulates five tracks on which to drive the economic system change necessary...
- How political processes affect the adoption of sustainable and equitable adaptation strategies to water-related stress and hazards
- N. S. Pradhan (ed);V. R. Khadgi (ed);L. Schipper (ed) / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD, 2012
- The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is predicted to be severely affected and socially vulnerable to climate change. This study delves into how political processes hinder or promote the adoption of sustain...
- Developing Asia’s Pension Systems and Old-Age Income Support
- Asian Development Bank Institute , 2012
- Old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This is especially true in East and Southeast Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of pens...
- Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils
- World Bank, 2012
- This report by the World Bank presents state of the art knowledge on the impact of different land management practices on soil carbon sequestration rates across the world. The technical study undertak...
- Lost in transition: transgender people, rights and HIV vulnerability in the Asia-Pacific region
- S. Winter / 2012
- The Asia-Pacific region is home to a large number of trans people; individuals whose gender identity, and/or expression of their gender, differs from social norms related to their gender of birth. T...
- Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China
- Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2012
- Older people sufer height shrinkage during ageing. Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outc...
- Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010. Country Report: Indonesia
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
- This report presents the findings of an evaluation of the support provided by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) to the formulation and implementation of national REDD1...
- Sustainable low-carbon city development in China
- A. Baeumler / World Bank, 2012
- This book published by the World Bank suggests a multifaceted approach that addresses spatial development, energy-efficient industry, increased public transport, and sustainable waste management syste...
- ICT, the New Media (Internet) and Development: Malaysian Experience
- A. Salman / Innovation Journal, 2012
- The mass media in Malaysia has been encouraged to work with the government in mobilizing the people towards achieving national development objectives. Apart from the role that has been played by the t...
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