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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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    Conflicting interests in coastal zones - shrimp farms, agriculture and fishing

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The shrimp industry has expanded greatly over the past 30 years, and it is becoming more intensive. This is because of the increasing demand for shrimps, combined with new farming technologies. This affects other users of coastal zones and has implications for coastal ecosystems.
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    Is Asia prepared for an aging population?

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2006
    Many Asian countries will experience a significant ageing of their populations during the next decades. This paper explores how these countries are addressing and anticipating the challenges of an ageing society.
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    Poverty reduction through investment in transport and energy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Although investment in energy and transport infrastructure is considered crucial to poverty reduction, there is little direct evidence for this link. Energy and transport services are intermediate goods: they enable other activities that may reduce poverty. Studying how they actually affect poverty could lead to more pro-poor approaches to providing infrastructure.
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    The high cost of calling: critical issues in the mobile phone industry

    Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006
    This report looks at corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the mobile phone industry.
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    Dementia in the Asia Pacific region: the epidemic is here

    Access Economics, 2006
    The dementias are a group of diseases characterised by loss of short-term memory, other thinking (cognitive) abilities and daily functioning. Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia are the commonest types of dementia.
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    The banking system in emerging economies: how much progress has been made?

    Bank for International Settlements, 2006
    Banking crises in emerging markets in the 1990s were associated with major macroeconomic disruptions: sharp increases in interest rates, large currency depreciations, output collapses and lasting declines in the supply of credit.
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    International AIDS assistance: 'new' money?

    Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2006
    Produced as a background paper to inform the conference, ‘Sustaining U.S.
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    Future characteristics of the elderly in developing countries and their implications for policy

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2006
    This paper generates profiles of the elderly to 2050 on key characteristics for a set of thirteen developing countries that vary by region, size, economic level, and cultural traditions. Findings show dramatic shifts in the educational attainment and family size of the elderly over the next 30-40 years.
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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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