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  Developing the market for local currency bonds by foreign issuers: lessons from Asia

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2005

  This paper examines the experience of countries in the East Asian region that have introduced local currency bonds by foreign issuers (LCBFIs). The countries that are examined include Australia; Hong Kong, China; Japan; Republic of Korea; and Singapore.The study suggests that there are sound reasons for many countries to develop the market for foreign issuers.
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  China beyond 2012

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2005

  This briefing looks at policy options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in China. Although China has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, its status as a developing nation means it is not bound to any quantitative restrictions on emissions under the Kyoto Protocol’s commitment period, from 2008-2012.
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  Cracking down on the HIV/AIDS crisis: can global targets work?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Globally, 40 million people live with HIV/AIDS; 5 million people were infected with HIV in 2001. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 to halt and reverse the spread of the disease is critical to other aspects of human development. However, this goal must consider how the disease develops in different regional and national contexts.
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  Urban poverty, childhood poverty and social protection in China: critical issues

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper examines the problem of urban poverty in China, particularly in relation to its impact on disadvantaged children, including children of migrants and street children.
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  Drug use and HIV vulnerability policy research study in Asia

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000

  This study, from UNAIDS, explores how national drug control and public health policies could facilitate or prevent the implementation of interventions to reduce HIV transmission among injecting drug users (IDUs). The study looks specifically at China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.
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  How does China’s growth affect poverty reduction in Asia, Africa and Latin America?

  Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2004

  This study assesses China’s growth on the world economy and its implications of this for poverty reduction in other developing countries and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The growth of China has implications for other countries through its impact on their exports to China itself (positive) and to third countries (negative), and through their imports from China.
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  Food security – putting policy into practice

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Food availability and access issues threaten millions of the world’s poorest people. Food security attracts interest from many areas of research but this has not been used to develop effective policies. How can people facing food insecurity identify the most suitable policy approaches from the vast amount of information available?
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  Water and sanitation for all: where are we now?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  In 2000, over a billion people lacked access to safe water and 2.4 billion lacked access to adequate sanitation facilities. Although most developing countries are moving in the right direction, many are lagging.
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  Learning from success

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  What might the many developing countries that have been less successful against poverty learn from China’s experience? And what can China learn for its continuing efforts against poverty? Based on survey data spanning 1980–2001, This article unpacks an analysis of China’s record against poverty spanning 1980 - 2001.
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  Macroeconomic policies: new issues of interdependence

  OECD Development Centre, 2005

  This paper discusses three novel macroeconomic policy challenges: the macroeconomic implications of China’s emergence; the implications of intensifying financial integration; and the interaction of Asia’s foreign exchange regime with monetary policy in the OECD area.First, China may now be regarded as a price maker on some international commodity and energy markets.

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