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 …

Asia region, but also recommends that interventions take into account a series of factors if the impacts of the economic …

crisis has discouraged United States (US) private consumption, which in turn has significantly reduced exports from Asia …. However, Asia's private consumption is at a very low level even when compared with the current reduced US private consumption …

Income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a …

Given Asia's record of rapid economic growth and the conceptual and empirical problems of the current international … income poverty line ('dollar-a-day'), this paper discusses whether there is merit to develop an Asia-specific poverty line … that addresses some of the shortcomings of the dollar-a-day line and additionally considers Asia's particular economic …

This paper estimates the number of poor in various countries in Asia by applying an "amalgam poverty line", which is a …

constant relative risk aversion applies to countries involved in the Asia-Pacific region. Upward adjustment of the poverty line …