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the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas …; in Asia, during the same period, on-farm GHG emissions grew by 27%, from 2.5 to 3.2 GtCO2e. All of this puts agriculture … to "end hunger" and "achieve food security and improved nutrition," while promoting "sustainable agriculture." Lifting …
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We analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers' exposure to sudden market failures from relying on a narrow range of international suppliers. We compute a bilateral import penetration index (BIPI), which gauges the degree to which a country depends on...
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a greater share of agriculture in gross domestic product. …
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paper finds that the domestic food price inflation in Asia is strongly associated with the lagged value of global food price …
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It has taken two crises - the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 and the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 - for the international community to seriously focus on the reform of the international financial architecture for crisis prevention, management and resolution. Facing the global...
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The pullbacks of capital inflows to developing Asia following the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008 have …
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development banks in the area of development finance). Asia could contribute to this transformation by building effective …
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is becoming - one long-term response to the crisis by Asia's emerging economies. In the long run, sustainable economic … commercial and industrial enterprises in developing Asian states, particularly in Asia's more advanced developing economies. …
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regions, Asia, in particular, will have to rely more upon domestic demand and will have a substantial role to play as growth … exports to the world and to developing Asia. We find that much of the apparent shift in export product shares was a result of … lower portion of high-technology products but a larger share of agriculture-related and raw materials and energy products …
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from the North Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade, and boosting SouthSouth trade. How will trade … patterns change over the next 2 decades in the course of economic growth and structural changes in developing Asia and the rest …, and (iii) various trade policy reforms in developing Asia without and with policy reforms also in the Northʺ and in …
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