Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2: ICT INFRASTRUCTURE -- I. Key Sector Challenges -- A. Access to ICTs -- B. Broadband -- C. Convergence -- D. Institutional Structure and Policy and Regulatory Frameworks -- E. ICTs and...

Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- I. Introduction -- II. Farm Investment Climate Assessment -- A. Survey Rationale and Design -- B. Sampling Strategy -- C. Farm and Farm Household Characteristics -- D. Farm Investment Climate --...

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Main Contributors to the Study -- Advisory Committee on the Study -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1: Country History and Overview -- Vision 2030: Growth Targets and Scenarios -- Core Growth Strategies -- Chapter 2: Economic...

Cover -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Urban Metabolism Framework -- 3 Measuring Urban Metabolism -- 3.1 Available Statistical Data -- 3.2 A New Streamlined Urban Metabolism Methodology -- 3.3 Urban Patterns -- 4 Urban Metabolism of the Six Asian Cities -- 4.1 Bangalore -- 4.2 Bangkok --...

Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Tables -- 1 Physical Indicators, Republic of Korea and Thailand, 2011 -- 2 Transport Indicators, Republic of Korea and Thailand, 2011 -- 3 Information and Communication Technology Goods and Service Exports, Republic of Korea and Thailand, Selected Years...

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- I. Overview -- A. Objective and Scope -- B. Organization of the Report -- C. Background and Motivation -- II. Human Capital Development, Achievements, and Gaps -- A. Literacy, School Enrollments, and...

Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Tables -- 1 Directors and Shareholders by Gender in Samoa and Solomon Islands -- 2 Gender of Borrowers in Pacific Countries -- 3 Some Results of Company Law and Registry Reforms in Samoa and Solomon Islands -- Figures -- 1 Cumulative Security Interests...

Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 IMPLEMENTING DIGITAL FINANCIAL SERVICES IN THE PACIFIC -- Fiji -- Papua New Guinea -- Samoa -- Solomon Islands -- Timor-Leste -- Tonga -- Vanuatu -- 3 FINANCIAL REGULATION OF DIGITAL FINANCIAL SERVICES -- Regulating the...

Cover -- Contents -- SPECIAL REPORT : BEYOND THE MDGs -- Setting the Agenda -- A global conversation is laying the groundwork for a new era in development -- The Birth of SDGs: How one woman's big idea energized the new development agenda -- Asia's Unfinished Agenda: MDG report card visualized...

Cover -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Table -- 1 Reform Priorities -- 2 Key Challenges and Recommendations -- B1 Policy Framework for Private Sector Investment -- C1 Progress Addressing Key Concerns Identified in the 2005 Private Sector Assessment -- D1 Summary of Infrastructure...