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    Promoting peer review as a compliance mechanism for regional integration

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Multilateral organisations have long used peer review as a means to encourage compliance with commitments made in the pursuit of various socio-economic goals. Africa established the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) as an indigenous system to monitor the progress of member states in the realm of governance and to provide support for their national development priorities.
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    International migration and development in East Asia and the Pacific

    World Bank, 2014
    In recent decades, divergence in income and demographic profiles within East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) has spurred increased intraregional migration.
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    Regional cooperation for infrastructure development: towards an institutional framework for investment in the IOR - ARC

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2013
    Infrastructure plays a key role in promoting economic growth and development. Infrastructure is considered as a priority sector for investment in the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC). Due to low domestic savings most of the member states in the region are quite dependent on foreign investment for capital formation.
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    The urgent need to increase baseload generating capacity in Mindanao

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    The electric power crisis in Mindanao in the summer of 2012 and the subsequent precariously low power reserves primarily resulted from insufficient baseload generating capacity in the region.
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    Will Africa benefit from a demographic dividend?

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2012
    Sub-Saharan Africa lags behind other regions in terms of fertility change and the period of declining dependency ratios lies largely in the future. This paper considers what is needed for Africa to convert favourable demographic change into a major economic opportunity.
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    Urban poverty in Asia

    Asian Development Bank, 2014
    Urbanisation is a positive factor in growth and poverty reduction. Country experiences are generally consistent with the view that a rising share of the population living in urban areas plays a positive role in overall poverty reduction, by providing new opportunities to those migrating out of the rural areas and escaping poverty in the process.
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    Economic policy monitor 2010: fiscal space, investment, and poverty alleviation

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    This first issue of the PIDS Economic Policy Monitor focuses on three related issues: fiscal space, investment, and poverty alleviation.
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    Economic policy monitor 2012: regional economic integration and inclusive growth - engaging nations, embracing people

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    With the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015, this report takes a look at the effects of the rapid pace of regional economic integration on the achievement of sustained, inclusive growth in the Philippines.
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    How can government increase R&D activities in the Philippines?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) collaborated with the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in the last quarter of 2009 to undertake a study focusing on the identification of factors that drive multinational corporations (MNCs) and technology-based companies to locate in the Philippines and invest in innovative activities.
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    Understanding the extent, composition, and characteristics of the poor

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    The 2010 Philippine Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Report noted that the country has been posting a medium rate of progress in terms of meeting the MDG target for poverty reduction.

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