Lack of access to electricity and modern cooking fuels constitutes energy poverty. Access to modern energy requires … partnerships to successfully promote energy access and eradicate energy poverty: selecting appropriate technology, promoting …

economies in Asia and the Pacific region. Special attention is paid to 11 economies — Armenia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India …

labor in Asia and the Pacific has stagnated in recent years even as the flow of goods, services, and investment have …

By 2010, demand for oil in developing Asia substantially exceeded that of North America and Europe combined, but demand … products and therefore decreases regional energy security; fungibility would be greatly increased if there were some degree of … standardization. In 2010, 76% of all Middle East exports went to Asia, but oil from the Middle East and Africa will not satisfy the …

Two trends on yields have been observed for rice, wheat, and even edible oils in Asia. The deceleration of yield growth …

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 …

Asia and the Pacific. This is confirmed by debt ratio projections and evidence of widening pockets of vulnerability picked …

Southeast Asia, and diverse feed-in tariffs for renewable energy. The three main ways regional cooperation can strengthen …Three case studies illustrate some of the secondary consequences of the search for energy security and its relationship … national policies on energy security are (i) sharing information and knowledge to create a sound evidence base for policies …