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February, 2010 Current Topics

 

Source

 

 

 

 

Local Service Delivery of Potable Water in the Philippines: National Review and Case Analysis, December 2009

 

PIDS

ASEAN Rules of Origin: Lessons and Recommendations for Best Practice, December 2009

 

PIDS

On Free Trade Agreements (FTAs): the Philippine Perspective, December 2009

 

PIDS

Looking at Conditions of Persons with Disability in Metro Manila, December 2009

 

PIDS

Who Really Holds the "Power of the Purse?" December 2009

 

PIDS

What Ails Local Service Delivery of Public Goods and Services? December 2009

 

PIDS

Child Poverty in the Philippines: More Children Suffer as Poverty Rises, December 2009

 

PIDS

In Pursuit of Sex Parity: Are Girls Becoming more Educated than Boys? December 2009

 

PIDS

Housing Policy for the Poor: Revisiting UDHA and CISFA, November 2009

 

PIDS

Purchasing Power Parity: Understanding the Law of One Price, December 2009

 

PIDS

Transformational Branchless Banking: Blazing New Trails in Delivering Financial Services, November 2009

 

PIDS

Governance in the Education Sector, July-August 2009

 

PIDS

Poor Incentive Structure Drives Quality of Philippine Bureaucracy Down, May-June 2009

 

PIDS

U.S.-Burma Relations: "Pragmatic Engagement" Greets "Discipline-Flourishing Democracy", January 2010

 

EWC

Capital flows, the carry trade and 'sand in the wheels', February 2010

 

Lowy

Global Production Sharing, Trade Patterns and Determinants of Trade Flows in East Asia, January 2010

 

ADB

Regulatory Reforms for Improving the Business Environment in Selected Asian Economies - How Monitoring and Comparative Benchmarking Can Provide Incentive for Reform, January 2010

 

ADB

Our People Strategy, February 2010

 

ADB

ADB: Reflections and Beyond, Published 2009

 

ADB

Knowledge Solutions Series: The Future of Social Marketing

 

ADB

Financial governance and Indonesia's Reforestation Fund during the Soeharto and post-Soeharto periods, 1989–2009: a political economic analysis of lessons for REDD+, Published 2010

 

CIFOR

Guidelines for adapted Multidisciplinary Landscape Assessment methods for fire management projects in India, Published 2009

 

CIFOR

Counting on forests and accounting for forest contributions in national climate change actions, Published 2009

 

CIFOR

Emerging REDD+: a preliminary survey of demonstration and readiness activities, Published 2009

 

CIFOR

Recognising community rights: the potential and challenges of forest tenure reform, December 2009

 

CIFOR

Incentives +: how can REDD improve well-being in forest communities? December 2009

 

CIFOR

Readiness for REDD: financial governance and lessons from Indonesia's Reforestation Fund (RF), November 2009

 

CIFOR

Losing less and winning more: Building capacity to go beyond the trade-offs between conservation and development in the Lower Mekong, February 2009

 

CIFOR

Fiscal Policies and Challenges in South Asia, 2010

 

ASARC

Illegal Heroes and Victimless Crimes - Informal Cross-border Migration from Myanmar, December 2009

 

ISDP

Myanmar Economy - A Comparative View, December 2009

 

ISDP

Renewable Energy for Urban Application in the APEC Region, January 2010

 

APEC

Capitalizing Information Technology for Greater Equity and Access among Poor and Rural Communities, September 2009

 

APEC

The Financial Crisis and the Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies: A European Banking Perspective, January 2010

 

ADB

Financial Crisis, Trade Finance, and SMEs: Case of Central Asia, January 2010

 

ADB

Regulating Systemic Risk, January 2010

 

ADB

How Do FTAs Affect Exporting Firms in Thailand? January 2010

 

ADB

Knowledge Solutions Series: Marketing in the Public Sector

 

ADB

Remittances and Household Welfare: A Case Study of Bangladesh, December 2009

 

ADB

Remittances and Household Behavior in the Philippines, December 2009

 

ADB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

2009 Key APEC Documents

 

APEC

Experience exchange on the use of tools and Information Technology for goods identification, December 2009 (Printed in January 2010)

 

APEC

The Approach of Organic Agriculture: New Markets, Food Security and a Clean Environment, December 2009 (Printed in January 2010)

 

APEC

ADB's Pacific Approach 2010-2014, Puiblished 2009

 

ADB

Japan's Approach to Building Peace: A Critical Appraisal and the Way Forward, December 2009

 

EWC

The Cambodia-Thailand Conflict: A Test for ASEAN, December 2009

 

EWC

Why Build a New Base on Okinawa When the Marines are Relocating to Guam?: Okinawa Mayor Challenges Japan and the US, January 2009

 

JPFocus

Charter 08, the Troubled History and Future of Chinese Liberalism, January 2009

 

JPFocus

Japanese Bureaucrats Hide Decision to Move All US Marines out of Okinawa to Guam, December 2009

 

JPFocus

Nuclear Power, Risk Management and Democratic Accountability in Indonesia: Volcanic, regulatory and financial risk in the Muria peninsula nuclear power proposal, December 2009

 

JPFocus

Rethinking Extended Nuclear Deterrence in the Defence of Australia, December 2009

 

JPFocus

Extended Nuclear Deterrence, Global Abolition, and Korea, December 2009

 

JPFocus

The Path Not Taken, The Way Still Open: Denuclearizing The Korean Peninsula And Northeast Asia, December 2009

 

JPFocus

Korean Prisoners-of-War in Hawaii During World War II and the Case of US Navy Abduction of Three Korean Fishermen, December 2009

 

JPFocus

Supply Chain Dynamics in Asia

 

ADB

Liberalization and Regulation of Capital Flows: Lessons for Emerging Market Economies

 

ADB

FTAs and Philippine Business: Evidence from Transport, Food, and Electronics Firm, January 2010

 

ADB

Green Benches: What can the People's Republic of China Learn from Environmental Courts of Other Countries? 2009

 

ADB

Build It and They Will Come: Lessons from the Northern Economic Corridor: Mitigating HIV and Other Diseases, 2009

 

ADB

Electric Two-Wheelers in India and Viet Nam: Market Analysis and Environmental Impacts, 2009

 

ADB

Strengthening Pacific Fragile States: The Marshall Islands Example, 2009

 

ADB

Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 3, 2009

 

CSDS/
ANU

Hong Kong: High Frequency Macroeconomic Forecasts Current Quarter Model: 2010Q1, January 2010

 

HKU

Part of The ADB Knowledge Solutions Series (Full Details):  

ADB

International Journal of Korean Studies, Volume XIII, Number 2, 2009  

IJKS

Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations, Volume 6, March 2009

 

SEJJIR

The vital place of nuclear weapons in 21st century US national security strategy, December 2009

 

Lowy

APEC - IPEG Survey on Copyright Limitations & Exceptions Report on Copyright L&E in APEC Economies, July 2009 (Electronically reproduced in January 2010)

 

APEC

The APEC Training Course on Response to Human Infections with Avian Influenza H5N1 and Pandemic H1N1 2009 Viruses, December 2009

 

APEC

Workshop on Implementation of Valuation Advance Rulings in APEC Member Economies, December 2009

 

APEC

APEC Sub-committee on Customs Procedures Blueprint, December 2009

 

APEC

Public Policies to Promote Women Entrepreneurs Project: Cases of Australia, Canada, Chile and Peru, August 2009 (Printed in December 2009)

 

APEC

Governance, Institutions, and Regional Infrastructure in Asia, January 2010

 

ADB

The Global Financial Crisis and Macroeconomic Policy Issues in Asia, December 2009

 

ADB

Developing Asian Local Currency Bond Markets: Why and How? December 2009

 

ADB

International Monetary Transmission and Exchange Rate Regimes: Floaters vs. Non-Floaters, December 2009

 

ADB

Asia Economic Monitor, December 2009 providing the latest economic review of the 10 members of ASEAN plus China, Hong Kong, Korea and Taipei.

 

ADB

Trade Remedies: A Tool Kit, Published 2009. The modules in this tool kit concern the World Trade Organization's Anti-Dumping Agreement, the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and the Agreement on Safeguards, with special emphasis on the dispute settlement cases of interest to the Greater Mekong Subregion.

 

ADB

Background Note on the Justice Sector of the Philippines, Published 2009

 

ADB

Restructuring of State-Owned Financial Institutions. Lessons from Bank Rakyat Indonesia, Published 2009

 

ADB

Bangladesh Financial Sector: An Agenda for Further Reforms, Published 2009

 

ADB

Focus on Education: Good Practice in Cost Sharing and Financing in Higher Education, Published 2009

 

ADB

Streamlining Country Partnership Strategies, December 2009

 

ADB

The Decline of Investment in East Asia since the Asian Financial Crisis: An Overview and Empirical Examination, December 2009

 

ADB

Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth in Developing Asia, December 2009

 

ADB

The Global Crisis and the Impact on Remittances to Developing Asia, December 2009

 

ADB

An Analysis of Revisions to Annual GDP Estimates of Six ADB Regional Members, December 2009

 

ADB

Surveys of Informal Sector Enterprises - Some Measurement Issues, December 2009

 

ADB

Monetary Authority of Singapore: Survey of Professional Forecasters, December 2009  

MAS

Monetary Authority of Singapore: Financial Stability Review, November 2009  

MAS

Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Small and Medium Enterprises in the People's Republic of China, December 2009

 

ADB

Remittances in Asia: Implications for the Fight against Poverty and the Pursuit of Economic Growth, December 2009

 

ADB

Protecting the World's Oceans: From Vision to Action, May 2009

 

ADB

Improving Local Service Delivery for the MDGs in Asia: the Case of the Philippines, November 2009

 

PIDS

Philippine International Labor Migration in the Past 30 Years: Trends and Prospects, October 2009

 

PIDS

The Social and Economic Impact of Philippine International Labor Migration and Remittances, November 2009

 

PIDS

Institutions Serving Philippine International Labor Migrants, November 2009

 

PIDS

Impact of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis on the Philippines, October 2009

 

PIDS

Profiling Poverty with Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines, September 2009

 

PIDS

Incorporating Regional Rice Production Models in Rice Importation Simulation Model: a Stochastic Programming Approach, September 2009

 

PIDS

Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities: the Case of the Philippines, September 2009

 

PIDS

Motives and Giving Norms behind Remittances: the Case of Filipino Overseas Workers and their Recipient Households, September 2009

 

PIDS

Preliminary Results of the Survey on Persons with Disabilities Conducted in Selected Metro Manila Cities, August 2009

 

PIDS

The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Rural and Microfinance in Asia (revised), August 2009

 

PIDS

Social Insurance in the Philippines: Responding to the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond, August 2009

 

PIDS

Reforming Social Protection Policy: Responding to the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond, August 2009

 

PIDS

Toward a Strategic Urban Development and Housing Policy for the Philippines, July 2009

 

PIDS

A Documentation of the Annual Poverty Indicators Survey, July 2009

 

PIDS

Price Collection for the Consumer Price Index: a Documentation, July 2009

 

PIDS

A Documentation of the Philippines' Family Income and Expenditure Survey, July 2009

 

PIDS

Issues on the Official Poverty Estimation Methodology in the Philippines: Comparability of Estimates across Space and over Time, July 2009

 

PIDS

Small Area Estimation of Poverty Statistics, July 2009

 

PIDS

The 2008 Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Impact on the Philippines and Policy, November 2009

 

PIDS

Performance and Problems of Water Districts: Selected Experiences, October 2009

 

PIDS

Water Service Delivery on the Ground: Targets versus Realities (the Cases of Dumaguete City and Agusan del Sur), September 2009

 

PIDS

IP Children's Right to Cultural Citizenship, March-April 2009

 

PIDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

  

 
 

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