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September, 2010 Current Topics

 

Source

 

 

 

 

Seminar on Implementation of Border Measures for IPR Protection, Final Report, July 2010

 

APEC

Solicited and Unsolicited Credit Ratings: A Global Perspective, August 2010

 

ADB

Impacts of Current Global Economic Crisis on Asia's Labor Market, August 2010

 

ADB

Greater Mekong Sub Region: Capacity Building for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, August 2010

 

ADB

Viet Nam: Preparing the Higher Education Sector Development Project (HESDP) August 2010:  

ADB

Strengthening Higher and Vocational Education in Mongolia: Roadmap for Higher Education, July 2010

 

ADB

Public-Private Partnerships in Education: Lessons Learned from the Punjab Education Foundation, Published 2010

 

ADB

Improving Health and Education Service Delivery in India through Public-Private Partnerships, Published 2010

 

ADB

Computing Additive Chained Volume Measures of GDP Subaggregates, July 2010

 

PIDS

The Philippines' Absorptive Capacity for Foreign Aid, July 2010

 

PIDS

Innovations in Financing Food Security, July 2010

 

PIDS

Corruption and Development, Revisited, June 2010

 

PIDS

Prospects for Regional Cooperation between Latin America and the Caribbean Region and the Asia and Pacific Region: Perspective from East Asia, June 2010

 

PIDS

Why Cement Prices Remain High despite Zero Tariffs, June 2010

 

PIDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2010 (Highlights, and Full Report):
  • Part I: Special Chapter - The Rise of Asia's Middle Class
  • Part II: Millennium Development Goals
  • Part III: Regional Tables
  • Part IV: Definitions

Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2010 covers 48 economies: Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Republic of Korea, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taipei, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, and Viet Nam.

 

ADB

The Role of the State in Managing and Forestalling Systemic Financial Crises: Some Issues and Perspectives, August 2010

 

ADB

Strategy and Action Plan for the Greater Mekong Subregion East-West Economic Corridor, Published 2010

 

ADB

Toward Sustainable and Balanced Development: Strategy and Action Plan for the Greater Mekong Subregion North-South Economic Corridor, Published 2010

 

ADB

Sharing Growth and Prosperity: Strategy and Action Plan for the Greater Mekong Subregion Southern Economic Subregion, Published 2010

 

ADB

Governance and Anticorruption in Project Design, Published 2010

 

ADB

Knowledge Solutions Series: Informal Authority in the Workplace, August 2010

 

ADB

WikiLeaks Intensifies Afghanistan Debate, August 2010

 

EWC

Cities at Risk: Asia's Coastal Cities in an Age of Climate Change, July 2010

 

EWC

Reviving Dead Aid: Making International Development Assistance Work, August 2010

 

Lowy

How do we know when we are at war? August 2010

 

Lowy

Global Encounters: Outcomes Report, August 2010

 

Lowy

APEC Study On Export Technical Assistance Models, July 2010

 

APEC

Effective Community Based Tourism: A best practice manual for Peru, June 2010

 

APEC

Clean Technology Applications in Tourism Accommodation: A best practice manual for Peru, June 2010

 

APEC

Emergence of Rating Agencies: Implications for Establishing a Regional Rating Agency in Asia, August 2010

 

ADB

Risk-return Efficiency, Financial Distress Risk, and Bank Financial Strength Ratings, August 2010

 

ADB

Measuring the Environmental Impacts of Changing Trade Patterns on the Poor, August 2010

 

ADB

Asian Tigers' Choices: An Overview, August 2010

 

ADB

Appropriate Economic Space for Transnational Infrastructural Projects: Gateways, Multimodal Corridors, and Special Economic Zones, August 2010

 

ADB

Rebalancing the US Economy in a Postcrisis World, August 2010

 

ADB

Asia's Role in the Global Financial Architecture, August 2010

 

ADB

Assessing Socioeconomic Impacts of Transport Infrastructure Projects in the Greater Mekong Subregion, August 2010

 

ADB

The Evolution and Impact of Asian Exchange Rate Regimes, July 2010

 

ADB

Indonesia: Critical Development Constraints, Published 2010

 

ADB

Knowledge Solutions Series: A Primer on Social Neuroscience, August 2010

 

ADB

Songs of War and Peace: Music and Memory in Okinawa, August 2010

 

APJ

War, Memory, the Artist and The Politics of Language, August 2010

 

APJ

The Innocence of Evil: Reflections on War and the Battle of Okinawa, August 2010

 

APJ

Plausible Denial? Reviewing the Evidence of DPRK Culpability for the Cheonan Warship Incident, July 2010

 

APJ

US Military Bases on Guam in Global Perspective, July 2010

 

APJ

All Research is Fieldwork: A Practical Introduction to Studying in Japan as a Foreign Researcher, July 2010

 

APJ

Redress Crossroads in Japan: Decisive Phase in Campaigns to Compensate Korean and Chinese Wartime Forced Laborers, July 2010

 

APJ

Preparing Okinawa for Reversion to Japan: The Okinawa International Ocean Exposition of 1975, the US Military and the Construction State, July 2010

 

APJ

The New Face of U.S.-China Relations: "Strategic Reassurance" or Old-Fashioned Rollback? July 2010

 

APJ

Kyrgyzstan, the U.S.and the Global Drug Problem: Deep Forcesand the Syndrome of Coups, Drugs, and Terror, July 2010

 

APJ

Toward a Global Green Recovery: The G20 and the Asia-Pacific Region, July 2010

 

APJ

Rush to Judgment: Inconsistencies in South Korea's Cheonan Report, July 2010

 

APJ

Roots of U.S. Troubles in Afghanistan: Civilian Bombing Casualties and the Cambodian Precedent, June 2010

 

APJ

Can Japanese Agriculture Overcome Dependence and Decline? June 2010

 

APJ

Okinawa and Guam: In the Shadow of U.S. and Japanese "Global Defense Posture", June 2010

 

APJ

Debt, Networks and Reciprocity: Undocumented Migration from Fujian to Japan, June 2010

 

APJ

APEC Workshop for the Control Practice of Dengue Fever, 5-6 June 2008 (Published in July 2010)

 

APEC

Promoting Good Practice and Policies for Young People's Work in APEC Economies, July 2010

 

APEC

Trade Logistics and Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean, August 2010

 

ADB

The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation in South Asia, July 2010

 

ADB

Fiscal Policy Coordination in Asia: East Asian Infrastructure Investment Fund, July 2010

 

ADB

The Internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises in Regional and Global Value Chains, July 2010

 

ADB

Solomon Islands 2010 Economic Report, Published 2010

 

ADB

Bangladesh: Country Operations Business Plan 2011-2013, July 2010

 

ADB

Knowledge Solutions Series: Bridging Organizational Silos, July 2010

 

ADB

Decentralization in India: Outcomes and Opportunities, 2010

 

ASARC

Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis, 2010

 

ASARC

Net Transfer Benefit under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, 2010

 

ASARC

Child Undernutrition in India, 2010

 

ASARC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asia Economic Monitor, July 2010 providing the latest economic review of the 10 members of ASEAN plus China, Hong Kong, Korea and Taipei,China.

 

ADB

The Evolving Postcrisis World, July 2010

 

ADB

ADB Review, July 2010

 

ADB

Satisfying Hidden Hunger: Addressing Micronutrient Deficiencies in Central Asia, Published 2010

 

ADB

Replicating Exemplary Practices in Mathematics Education among APEC Economies, July 2010

 

APEC

Best Practices in Investment for Development Case Studies in FDI How to Integrate FDI in the Skills Development Process: Lessons from Canada and Singapore, June 2010

 

APEC

SME Market Access and Internationalization: Medium-term KPIs for the SMEWG Strategic Plan, June 2010

 

APEC

Synthesis and Proceedings of the APEC Seminar on Trade in Health Services, May 2010

 

APEC

Monetary Authority of Singapore: 2009 Singapore Asset Management Industry Survey, July 2010  

MAS

Monetary Authority of Singapore: MAS Survey of Professional Forecasters, June 2010  

MAS

Monetary Authority of Singapore: Tenets of Effective Regulation, June 2010  

MAS

Confronting the Crisis of International Climate Policy: Rethinking the Framework for Cutting Emissions, July 2010

 

Lowy

Separate but Loyal: Ethnicity and Nationalism in China, 2010

 

EWC

Is the Trial of 'Duch' a Catalyst for Change in Cambodia's Courts? June 2010

 

EWC

Noynoy Aquino: A Philippine Nixon? June 2010

 

EWC

The 2008 Financial Crisis and Potential Output in Asia: Impact and Policy Implications, May 2010

 

PIDS

LGU Access to Official Development Assistance (ODA): Status, Issues, and Concerns, May 2010

 

PIDS

Monetary Policy and Financial Stability: Is Inflation Targeting Passe? July 2010

 

ADB

The Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation: Origin, Development and Outlook, July 2010

 

ADB

Financing Asia's Infrastructure: Modes of Development and Integration of Asian Financial Markets, July 2010

 

ADB

Developing Asia's Competitive Advantage in Green Products: Learning from the Japanese Experience, July 2010

 

ADB

Part of the Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2010 (Full Study)

      Politics and Social Change in Contemporary Japan

      Chinese History and Politics

      East Asia in North American History

 

VRAS

Impact of Global Recession on Sustainable Development and Poverty Linkages, July 2010

 

ADB

Unleashing Economic Growth: Region-Based Urban Development Strategy for Nepal, Published 2010

 

ADB

Improving the livelihoods of the poor and marginalized in Nepal through Leasehold Forestry: A review of institutional constraints and opportunities, Published 2008

 

CIFOR

Genetic Resources and Growth -TRIPs and CBD, October 2009

 

AUAPEC

Chilling Productivity in Australian Agriculture,Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries, October 2009

 

AUAPEC

No Confidence in Korea: A Regional Problem in a Global Context, Published 2010

 

ISDP

The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the International Strategic Configuration, Published 2010

 

ISDP

The Key to Success in Afghanistan: A Modern Silk Road Strategy, May 2010

 

ISDP

Hmong Studies Journal 1996 - 2009  

HSJ

Hong Kong: High Frequency Macroeconomic Forecasts Current Quarter Model: 2010Q3, July 2010

 

HKU

Assessment and Best Practices on Paperless Trading to Facilitate Cross Border Trade in the APEC Region, June 2010

 

APEC

Increasing the Knowledge and Awareness of Carbon Capture and Storage: Capacity-Building in the APEC Region (Phase IV), June 2010

 

APEC

Clean Technology Applications in Tourism Accommodation: A best practice manual, June 2010

 

APEC

Effective Community Based Tourism: A Best Practice Manual, June 2010

 

APEC

Interim Report: Implementing an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries in the Context of Broader Marine Ecosystem-based Management, June 2010

 

APEC

Seminar-Workshop on the Development and Strengthening of Food Recall System for APEC Member Economies, May 2010

 

APEC

Fiscal Policy Issues in Korea after the Current Crisis, July 2010

 

ADB

Rebalancing Growth in the Republic of Korea, July 2010

 

ADB

The Benefits of Regional Infrastructure Investment in Asia: A Quantitative Exploration, July 2010

 

ADB

Carbon Efficiency, Carbon Reduction Potential, and Economic Development in the People's Republic of China: A Total Factor Production Model, Published 2010

 

ADB

Pacific Department 2009 Compendium of Knowledge Products, Published 2010

 

ADB

Focused Action: Priorities for Addressing Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific, June 2010

 

ADB

Energy and Water Supply Services: Improving Efficiency through Policy and Regulation, June 2010

 

ADB

Pro-poor Policy and Regulatory Reform of Water and Energy Supply Services, June 2010

 

ADB

ADB Review, June 2010

 

ADB

Technical Assistance Disbursement Handbook, May 2010

 

ADB

Lessons from Japan's Banking Crisis, 1991–2005, June 2010

 

ADB

Financial Turmoil in the Banking Sector and the Asian Lamfalussy Process: The Case of Four Economies, June 2010 including the People's Republic of China (PRC), Hong Kong China, Singapore, and Taipei,China

 

ADB

Institutions for Asian Connectivity, June 2010

 

ADB

The Role of Membership Rules in Regional Organizations, June 2010

 

ADB

Methods for Ex Ante Economic Evaluation of Free Trade Agreements, June 2010

 

ADB

Poverty Impacts of Government Expenditure from Natural Resource Revenues, June 2010

 

ADB

Asian Development Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2010 (Full Report):   ADB

Rural Biomass Energy 2020 in the People's Republic of China, Published 2010. This publication explores the potential of biomass energy to close the urban–rural energy gap, raise farmer incomes, and address some of the environmental concerns in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Its findings are useful for other developing and medium-income countries currently in the process of drawing up their respective energy-for-all strategies.

 

ADB

The Future Global Reserve System - An Asian Perspective, June 2010 covering the following topics:
  • Global Financial Crisis, its Impact on India and the Policy Response
  • To What Extent Should Capital Flows be Regulated?
  • The Case for a Further Global Coordinated Fiscal Stimulus
  • Managing a Multiple Reserve Currency World
  • From the Chiang Mai Initiative to an Asian Monetary Fund
  • An Asian Currency Unit for Asian Monetary Integration
  • The International Monetary System at a Crossroad
  • Towards a New Global Reserve System
  • A Realistic Vision of Asian Economic Integration
  • An Asian Monetary Unit?
  • Will US fiscal Deficits Undermine the Role of the Dollar as Global Reserve Currency? If So, Should US Fiscal Policy be geared to Preserving the International Role of the Dollar?
  • International Reserves and Swap Lines: the Recent Experience
  • The Future of the Global Reserve System
  • Renminbi Policy and the Global Currency System
  • Will the Renminbi Emerge as an International Reserve Currency?
  • Asia's Sovereign Wealth Funds and Reform of the Global Reserve System
  • Reforming International Monetary System
  • Designing a Regional Surveillance Mechanism for East Asia: Lessons from IMF Surveillance
 

ADB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

  

 
 

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