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    Worldwide guide to trade unions and works councils

    Baker and McKenzie, 2010
    This book looks at the current state of works councils and trade unions for 33 countries around the world. Topics include: collective bargaining unfair labour practices trade union employee protections rights employee collective representatives the labour regulatory regime
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    The time to lead is now: the adoption of ESG analysis by Asian government pension funds

    The Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia, 2009
    Asia's pension funds are among the largest and fastest growing pools of capital in the region and their influence in the capital markets will continue to grow, especially as asset allocations diversify.
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    Ageing Asia’s looming pension crisis

    Asian Development Bank, 2009
    Due to population ageing, weakening of family-based support, and related factors, old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of the pension systems in eight East and Southeast Asian countries, identifying their major structural weaknesses, and suggesting some specific policy directions for them.
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    Pensions at a glance: Asia/pacific edition

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    Asia's pension systems need modernising urgently to ensure that they are financially sustainable and will provide adequate retirement incomes.  A core concern of this study is the social sustainability of pensions - the future adequacy of pension benefits, the impact of pension reforms on the distribution of income among older people, and ways of combating old-age poverty.
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    Local democracy in Asia: representation in decentralized governance – concepts and issues

    United Nations Development Programme, 2006
    This Background Paper is part of a wider UNDP regional initiative that focuses on a number of core issues related to representative systems and local elections. It includes a detailed review of the systems in place in eight countries in South/West Asia, five countries in Southeast Asia and three Pacific region countries.
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    Developing technologies for sustainable fisheries in Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Governments in Asia must prioritise technologies that improve fishery productivity to meet the growing local and international demand for fish. This increased productivity must be sustainable, however, and benefits need to be shared amongst people living in poverty who depend on fisheries.
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    Can well-regulated private education help achieve Education for All?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The privatisation of schools in developing countries is expanding rapidly. Does private education just benefit elite groups? Or should it be seen as a support to governments constrained by limited public budgets, low quality education and persistent schooling gaps? How should it be regulated? Should private providers receive state support?
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    Interrelationship between growth, inequality, and poverty: the Asian experience

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    This paper examines the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty for 17 Asian countries for the period 1981–2001. The author uses an inequality–growth trade-off index (IGTI) to analyse the trade-off between inequality and growth. A poverty equivalent growth rate is also employed to study the distributional impact of growth.
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    Inclusive growth toward a prosperous Asia: policy implications

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    Asia’s impressive economic growth is being complemented by soaring inequalities. This paper argues that if rising income and non-income inequalities are not addressed, there is a major risk to continued social and economic progress in developing Asia.
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    Time to change agrarian development focus in South-East Asia?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Agriculture is losing is central position in the lives of South-East Asian villagers. It no longer has the productivity to meet the needs and aspirations of a large number of rural people. Are policymakers aware of the profound changes in rural lives and livelihoods taking place even in isolated areas?

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