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Accelerating resilience and climate change adaptation: Strengthening the Philippines' contribution to limit global warming and cope with its impacts
Monsod, Toby Melissa C.; Ahmed, Sara Jane; Hilario, Golda P. - 2021
In its first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement, the Philippines committed to a GHG emissions reduction/avoidance of 75 percent for the period 2020 to 2030, referenced against a projected business-as-usual cumulative emission for the same period. However, the numbers...
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The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between Australia, India, Japan and the United States: More symptom than solution to the problem of growing instability in the Indo-Pacific
Heiduk, Felix; Wirth, Christian - 2023
According to official statements, the main purpose of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue ("Quad") is to intensify cooperation between the four partner countries - Australia, India, Japan and the United States - in tackling urgent challenges in the Indo-Pacific region. These include climate...
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What Does ASEAN Mean to ASEAN Peoples? (The Philippine Case)
Siar, Sheila V.; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Llanto, Gilberto M. - 2017
inferences about the level of awareness of the Filipino people on ASEAN; their perceived problems confronting the Philippines and … ASEAN; and their aspirations, concerns, and hopes for the association. It reveals moderate familiarity about ASEAN, as well … as modest identification as ASEAN citizens, which improves with age and experience. There is also a general sentiment …
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A regulação de "novos temas" em acordos preferenciais de comércio celebrados por união europeia, estados unidos, China e Índia: Pontos relevantes para o Brasil
Badin, Michelle Ratton Sanchez - 2012
This study analyses the creation and implementation of rules in preferential trade agreements concerning government procurement, competition, environment and labour issues - all qualified as new topics to the international negotiations agenda on trade. It aims at identifying the main trends in...
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Enhancing intra-SAARC trade: Pruning India's sensitive list under SAFTA
Taneja, Nisha; Ray, Saon; Kaushal, Neetika; Chowdhury, … - 2011
The study suggests an approach to reduce India's sensitive list under SAFTA. The concept of Revealed Comparative Advantage has been used to pair the RCAs for products on India's sensitive list with the corresponding RCAs of the SAARC countries. Four categories of items are generated based on...
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Epidemiological Assessment of Fires in the Philippines, 2010-2012
Velasco, Gloria Nenita V. - 2013
Fires are the most costly preventable emergency in the Philippines but are relatively unstudied. A 2012 study done by … the Department of Health - Health Emergency Management Staff (DOH-HEMS) revealed that fires constituted 39 percent of all … injuries. The epidemiology of fires and fire-related casualties in the Philippines from 2010 to 2012 was assessed.All fires …
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Internalizing Global Externalities from Biodiversity: Protected Areas and Multilateral Mechanisms of Transfer
Deke, Oliver - 2004
Biodiversity can sometimes only be preserved if natural habitats are excluded from human uses. Such protection measures generate positive externalities at the global scale. This holds especially for protection in developing countries that host great parts of global biodiversity. For...
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Regional Monetary Integration among Developing Countries: New Opportunities for Macroeconomic Stability beyond the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas?
Fritz, Barbara; Mühlich, Laurissa - 2006
(CMA), East Asia (ASEAN) and Latin America (Mercosur) shows that these can indeed provide macroeconomic stability gains but …. Eine erste vergleichende Analyse von drei Fällen monetärer Süd-Süd-Kooperation im Südlichen Afrika (CMA), Ostasien (ASEAN …
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Economic Implications of Deeper Asian Integration
Francois, Joseph Francis; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2008
, all centered on extending the reach of ASEAN to include free trade agreements with combinations of the northeast Asian …
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Assessment of CDM Capacity Building Activities in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam: Lessons Learned
2006
building in these countries even more urgent. So far ASEAN region has been targeted by a high number of capacity building …
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