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The Bhutan Living Standards Survey (BLSS) 2012 Report summarizes the results of the household survey undertaken by the National Statistics Bureau with the Asian Development Bank capacity development technical assistance Third Bhutan Living Standards Survey. The report presents the analysis on...
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Timor-Leste has committed to creating fair and inclusive opportunity. To assist the pursuit of this goal, the paper assesses the distribution of opportunity in the sucos (i.e. village) level. This publication identifies the least developed sucos that mostly need extra support.
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Viewed as a key to strengthening accountability, citizen empowerment alone is not enough to guarantee quality public service. It must go hand in hand with better governance. This report highlights two factors that have improved governance and public service provision in developing Asia: (i)...
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convened in Bangkok, Thailand for their third roundtable on environment with the theme “ASEAN’s Environmental Challenges and … implementation of “A Common Vision on Environment for ASEAN Judiciaries” (the “Jakarta Common Vision”), such as by establishing … National Working Groups on Environment and an ASEAN Judiciaries Working Group on Environment, and prioritizing the attendance …
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Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP …). It is the sixth in a series of reports prepared by ESCAP for successive Ministerial Conferences on Environment and … Development in Asia and the Pacific, and is the third in ADB’s Asian Environment Outlook series. It is also in line with the …
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Asian cities are central to economic development but are perceived to be wealthy yet chaotic places. Burdened by congestion, inequality, and fragmented interventions, these urban systems remain relatively weak. However, their rapid growth and wealth provide an opportunity to usher in inclusive...
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quality of the ambient environment, the recently released Macro Strategic Research Report on the PRC’s Environment recognized …
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(Rio+20), ADB prepared this report, Environment Operational Directions 2013–2020, to provide a coherent overview of ADB … environment operations and to articulate how it will step up efforts to help the region achieve a transition to environmentally … experience in environment operations, and identifies effective approaches for the development of “greener” country partnership …
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, selection, and implementation of “win–win” travel demand management measures that improve both the urban environment and the …
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The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) includes Cambodia, the People’s Republic of China (specifically Yunnan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region), the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam. In 1992, with assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and...
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