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- The potential development of mega urban economies in three South East Asian locations - Bangkok, Jakarta and the Singapore Iskander Development Region (IDR) (South Johor) - is discussed. The gains from closer economic integration and the issues to be settled before this could occur are examined. Lessons are drawn from the fusing of the economies of Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta in Chinas Guangdong Province. This document is Policy Research Working Paper 4252 from the World Bank Development Research Group, and was published in June 2007.
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- Shahid Yusuf
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/7406
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- The potential development of mega urban economies in three South East Asian locations - Bangkok, Jakarta and the Singapore Iskander Development Region (IDR) (South Johor) - is discussed. The gains from closer economic integration and the issues to be settled before this could occur are examined. Lessons are drawn from the fusing of the economies of Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta in Chinas Guangdong Province.
This document is Policy Research Working Paper 4252 from the World Bank Development Research Group,
Published June 2007.
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- Shahid Yusuf
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/7406/wps4252.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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- This report aims to provide capacity building on disaster risk financing and insurance (DRFI) in ASEAN member states. It discusses the financial assessment and financial management of natural disasters and then goes on to describe agricultural insurance and disaster microinsurance. It concludes by arguing that governments need to understand the benefits and the limitations of disaster risk financing and insurance as part of their disaster risk management strategies. This report was published by the World Bank in 2012.
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- The World Bank Group
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12627
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- This document provides the technical appendices for volume one of this report. It includes nine appendices, including information about disaster risk exposure profiles, disaster risk management profiles and agricultural and microinsurance for ASEAN member states. This report was published by The World Bank in 2012.
- Author
- The World Bank Group
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12628
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- This volume provides papers on the following themes: industrial policy and development; social capital, institutions, and development; financial crisis and regulation; the road to a sustainable global economic system; and innovation and competition. Many of the authors draw upon lessons learned from the experience of Korea and other East Asian countries and their responses to the financial crisis of the late 1990s. The volume includes selected papers and keynote addresses from the 2010 Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), a forum for discussion and debate of important policy issues facing developing countries. It was published by The World Bank in 2011.
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- Justin Yifu Lin (editor); Boris Pleskovic (editor)
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2555
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- This brief report highlights some of the key findings relating to the ASEAN region taken from a global review of the impacts of aquaculture on the environment including an overview of aquaculture in the region, an analysis of how aquaculture affects the ocean life cycle and a prediction of future demand.
- Publisher
- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2819.pdf
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- This report ranks countries and river basins worldwide based on their exposure water-related risks. It provides national and basin-level scores derived from more localized water-risk scores from the Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas.
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- Francis Gassert; Paul Reig; Tianyi Luo; Andrew Maddocks
- Publisher
- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-country-river-basin-rankings
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- This report examines the use of medium-term expenditure frameworks (MTEFs) in the education sector as a way of aligning national educational policies with sound financial planning in the public sector. It defines MTEF, explains the reasons for introducing MTEFs, presents nine country experiences of introducing MTEF (including Cambodia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), examines general issues with implementation and suggests some possible solutions for these issues. This report was published by UNESCO in 2010.
- Author
- Grayson Clarke
- Publisher
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001915/191500e.pdf
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- This report examines the current systems of educational learning assessments across countries in the Asia-Pacific region as a method of improving the quality of education. It presents an overview of assessment practices in the region and examines national/sub-national assessments, public examinations, school-based assessment and international assessments with a summary of the major findings and implications for the future. This report was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- Esther Sui-chu HO
- Publisher
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002178/217816E.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the first goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of education and care in early childhood, and identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2012.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002171/217145e.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the second goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of all children to have access to and to complete free, compulsory, good quality primary education. It also identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2013.
- Publisher
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002212/221200E.pdf
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- Description
- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the third goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of all young people and adults having the opportunity to gain the knowledge and develop the skills to develop their capacity to work, participate in society and continue learning. It identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2013.
- Publisher
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/efa/Publications/EDN_G3_Web_FINAL.pdf
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- Description
- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the fourth goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of achieving a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults. It identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2012.
- Publisher
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002184/218428E.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the fifth goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education and achieving gender equality in education. It identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2012.
- Publisher
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002191/219185E.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the sixth goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of improving the quality of education so that all achieve recognized and measurable learning outcomes. It identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2012.
- Publisher
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002191/219186E.pdf
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- Description
- This report reviews the current features of examinations and the current practices in public examinations taking place in countries in the Asia-Pacific region with recommendations for future improvement. Its recommendations focus on assuring integrity of assessments, reducing examination pressures, catering for an expanding and more diverse student candidature, assessing a wider range of curricular objectives and assuring quality and gaining public confidence. This report was published by UNESCO in 2013.
- Author
- Peter Hill
- Publisher
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001878/187826E.pdf
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- This report examines measures that may contribute to increased access to secondary education in Asia and the Pacific, analysing the coverage of secondary education in Asia and the Pacific, reviewing major inequalities that exist in access and coverage and identifying factors that limit the access of primary school graduates to secondary education. This report was published by UNESCO in 2010.
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- Francoise Caillods
- Publisher
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001900/190007e.pdf
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- This map illustrates the average number of earthquakes per year in Asia, of magnitude 5 and above at all depths. It shows major tectonic boundaries, subduction zones, ridges and transform faults. The map is provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
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- United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/asia/density.php
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- This map of Asia displays seismic hazards in terms of peak ground acceleration (PGA). It also includes all major plate boundaries in the region: subduction zones, transform margins; and spreading centres. The map was developed by the Global Seismic Hazards Assessment Program (GSHAP) of the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
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- United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/asia/gshap.php
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- This map illustrates the number of earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 and above occurring in Asia from 1900 to 2012 at all depths. It also shows plate boundaries. The map is provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
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- United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/asia/seismicity.php
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- This document defines sustainable development and education for sustainable development (ESD), assesses the current state of ESD in the Asia-Pacific region and outlines a set of exercises which can be used to coordinate discussion between key stakeholders to assess national ESD-related activities, identify gaps in implementation and formulate a plan to move ESD forward. This document was published by UNESCO in 2011.
- Publisher
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001930/193013e.pdf
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- This document presents a selection of case studies on a teacher-education course in information and communications technology (ICT) for pre-service teachers as well as retraining teachers. The countries studied include China, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
- Publisher
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002235/223520E.pdf
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- This report reviews and analyzes key educational issues in the areas of education policy and management frameworks, secondary education and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) +6 countries and highlights how the systems can be improved and how educational disparities across the countries can be reduced. This report was published by UNESCO in 2014.
- Publisher
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unescobkk.org/resources/e-library/publications/article/education-systems-in-asean-6-countries-a-comparative-analysis-of-selected-educational-issues-educa/
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- This article describes the Genetic Improvement of Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) project, which involved the development of methods for genetic enhancement of tropical finfish using Nile tilapia as a test species, and describes the impacts of the project on the adoption of these methods for other species and the dissemination of improved breeds in several countries in Asia and the Pacific. This article was originally published in Naga, the quarterly magazine of The WorldFish Center, in 2004.
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- M. V. Gupta; B. O. Acosta
- Publisher
- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Naga/naga27-3n4/pdf/article01.pdf
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- This brief document provides statistics on gender equality in primary and secondary education including whether educational opportunities are equally distributed and which countries will achieve gender parity by 2015. This document was published in September 2010.
- Publisher
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
- http://www.uis.unesco.org/FactSheets/Documents/fs4-2010-en.pdf