as well as droughts and heat waves. The Asia and the Pacific region has experienced some of the most damaging disasters … Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater … temperature linked to droughts and heat waves) and the frequency of intense natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific and its …

Evidence-based economic policies - pragmatic policies that work - played a major role in Asia's success in raising its … environmental degradation if Asia continues on its established growth path. Evidence strongly argues for Asia to broaden its …. The paper focuses on how Asia can manage this ambitious goal. Possible resistance from vested interests is to be …

producers of intellectual property. At the same time, developing Asia has attracted large amounts of foreign direct investment … the relationship between IPR and FDI in developing Asia. To do so, we develop a theoretical model which predicts that …