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    Population ageing in East and South-East Asia: current situation and emerging challenges

    UNFPA Country Technical Services Team for East and South-East Asia, 2006
    There has been marked progress in the policy response to population ageing in countries of the ESEAR, particularly since the commemoration of the International Year of Older Persons in 1999 and the 2002 Madrid World Assembly on Ageing.This report describes the current situation of population ageing, its causes and consequences and implications at the policy, programme and community level.
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    Time to rethink urban planning in Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    By 2015 Asia will have 12 mega-cities each with over ten million people.  One in three urban Asians lives in a slum.  As urbanisation accelerates, this number will rise unless Asian governments and the international development community prioritise housing and infrastructure development. 
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    Higher education in South-East Asia

    UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2006
    This report is a critical analysis of higher education in South-east Asia. The report is based on case studies from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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    CDM country guides

    Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2006
    Many developing countries are faced with a lack of consolidated information on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and this information has never been put together before in a comprehensive form.
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    Child domestic labour in South-East and East Asia: emerging good practices to combat it

    International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2006
    This report explores the recent situation of child domestic labour in the South-East and East Asia and the actions that are being taken to combat it in the region.Part I of the report provides an overview of child domestic labour in the region, based on existing publications and documentation.
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    Addressing challenges in co-management information systems

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    There is an increasing shift towards the co-management of fisheries in many countries. Co-management creates new challenges for information collection and use, with a larger number of people involved in the process. This has prompted managers to reflect upon their new roles and reconsider their information requirements.
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    First language first: community-based literacy programmes for minority language contexts in Asia

    Education Sector, UNESCO, 2005
    This comprehensive report is the outcome of the Regional Workshop on Mother Tongue/Bilingual Literacy Programmes for Ethnic Minorities held in Kunming, China (May 2004). This workshop presented findings from UNESCOs action research on using the mother tongue/bilingual approach in pilot literacy projects for ethnic minority communities.
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    Children of international migrants in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines: a review of evidence and policies

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2005
    This paper looks at problems and opportunities faced by three groups of children affected by international migration:children left behind by international labour migrants from the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailandchildren of Thai nationals in Japanchildren brought along by irregular migrants in Malaysia and Thailand.Main findings include:migration of parents impr
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    Sustaining East Asia’s economic dynamism: how aid worked

    Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia, 2004
    This paper examines the role of foreign aid or development assistance in helping to sustain East Asia’s economic dynamism.
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    Justice for children: detention as a last resort. Innovative initiatives in the East Asia and Pacific region

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2004
    This document highlights a number of initiatives in the East Asia and Pacific Region that promote international standards on juvenile justice for children in conflict with the law, focusing in particular on initiatives which attempt to reduce the number of children sent to prison or detention centres for petty crimes (diversion), and those that set up community-based alternatives to incarceration

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