Asian Development Bank - Features
Road to HIV Prevention
15 May, 2012 - 00:00ADB is pushing for the amendment of the AIDS law to include HIV prevention in the workplace. This will facilitate government budget allocation for HIV prevention activities to curb an impending epidemic in Mongolia.
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12 Things to Know in 2012: Asian Agriculture
9 May, 2012 - 00:00With rising populations, increasing food prices and environmental concerns, Asia’s agricultural sector faces a raft of challenges.
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Best to Connect
8 May, 2012 - 00:00Asia has been very successful in reducing the rate of poverty yet nearly 1.8 billion people in the region still live on less than $2 a day. The effectiveness of development spending is more important than ever before.
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Fast Facts: Development Cooperation in a Changing World
5 May, 2012 - 00:00The landscape of aid has changed dramatically in the past 10 years.
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Fast Facts: Reforming International Financial Safety Nets
5 May, 2012 - 00:00Financial crises have shown the need for pools of emergency liquidity -- and the limits of some kinds of lending and borrowing. Learn more about why the world needs to reform its financial safety nets.
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Fast Facts: Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean
5 May, 2012 - 00:00Trade between Asia and Latin America has grown tremendously in the past decade, reaching an estimated $442 billion in 2011.
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Fast Facts: Regional Cooperation for Improved Financial Resilience and Liquidity Support - A Decade On and the Challenges Ahead
4 May, 2012 - 00:00ASEAN+3 launched the Asian Bond Markets Initiative in 2002 to improve the resilience of the financial system. This year we celebrate 10 years.
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Fast Facts: Seven Billion and Growing: How Will the World Feed Itself?
4 May, 2012 - 00:00Asia’s poor spend up to 70% of their income on food, while the rising middle class place even greater demand on food and water sources. How can the region ensure everyone has enough to eat?
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Fast Facts: How Can Asia Respond to Global Economic Crisis and Transformation?
3 May, 2012 - 00:00A new report from the Asian Development Bank says the greatest challenge for policymakers is to manage near-term issues while maintaining Asia’s successful, ongoing economic transformation as a global growth engine.
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Fast Facts: ASEAN Infrastructure Fund
3 May, 2012 - 00:00By establishing the ASEAN Infrastructure Fund, ASEAN would be taking a major step towards investing more if its resources in its own development needs.
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Fast Facts: ASEAN, the PRC and India - The Great Transformation?
2 May, 2012 - 00:00A new ADB-ADBI publication looks at how the economies of ASEAN, People’s Republic of China and India might fare by 2030.
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Fast Facts: Vulnerable Cities - Waking Up to the Need for Urban Disaster Risk Management
1 May, 2012 - 00:00Major cities in Asia and the Pacific face threats from floods, earthquakes and tropical storms. These fast facts illustrate why we must invest in Urban Disaster Management.
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Fast Facts: Climate Change and Green Asia
1 May, 2012 - 00:00ADB’s 45th Annual Meeting will examine the tough balancing act facing Asia & the Pacific: how to promote economic growth without sacrificing the environment. These fast facts highlight what's at stake.
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