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- This report seeks to provide provincial agencies and groups in China, and those that support them, with some outside perspectives and ideas on further development of provincial-level energy conservation programmes. The report focuses on energy conservation programmes in the industrial sector and covers: an overview of China's 2006-2010 energy conservation programme; current activities; and issues and challenges for the next five years. This document, report no.56416, was published by The World Bank in June 2010.
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- Robert P Taylor; Gailius J Draugelis; Yabei Zhang; Alberto U Ang Co
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2894
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- This report reviews water scarcity in China, assesses policy and institutional requirements for addressing it, and recommends key areas for strengthening and reform. It brings together the main findings and recommendations from over 30 technical reports, case studies, and background papers prepared for the World Banks Analytical and Advisory Assistance (AAA) programme entitled Addressing Chinas Water Scarcity: From Analysis to Action. The document, report no.47111, was published by The World Bank in 2009.
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- Jian Xie; Andres Liebenthal; Jeremy J Warford; John A Dixon; Manchuan Wang; Shiji Gao; Shuilin Wang; Yong Jiang; Zhong Ma
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2585
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- This report summarises the current status of aquaculture assessment tools (AATs) in the Asia and Pacific region through a selection of country case studies focusing on China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Each case study examines the application of existing aquaculture assessment tools in the country, including issues and constraints and recommendations for improvement. This report was published by the FAO in 2013.
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- Miao Weimin; C. V. Mohan; Wyn Ellis; Brian Davy (editors)
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/019/i3438e/i3438e00.htm
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- This report evaluates the acute water shortages and pollution problems in North China, specifically in the Yellow (Huang), Hai and Huai (3-H) river basins, and recommends a number of improvements to China's water management practices to better support agriculture, the urban and industrial water supply and ecological resources in this area. It examines changes in the economy and society affecting the water sector, the current water resource situation in the 3-H basins and feasible options for balancing water supply and demand. It includes action plans for each of the key areas including flood control, agriculture, pollution control, wastewater reuse and groundwater management. This report was published by The World Bank in 2002.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15418
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- This collection of papers examines agriculture and rural development in China, linkages between China and The WorldFish Center, aquaculture research and its relation to development in China and the research priorities of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (CAFS). It was published by WorldFish in 2003.
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- L. X. Zhang; J. Liu; S. F. Li; N. S. Yang; P. R. Gardiner
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_348.pdf
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- This report provides an introduction to the importance of agriculture and the growth of public and private agricultural insurance in Asia and the Pacific regions and discusses risk management and the role of agricultural insurance, agricultural insurance provision, public sector support for agricultural insurance, small farmer agricultural insurance initiatives and options and recommendations for government support to agricultural insurance in Asia and the Pacific region. This report was published by FAO in 2011.
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- Charles Stutley
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/i2344e/i2344e00.htm
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- This resource is part 1 of a 6 part document provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It provides an overview of trade and agriculture reforms in China, India and Malaysia since 1980. Part 1 specifically includes details of how the proceedings of the forum on agricultural reforms and trade liberalization emerged, and lists the achievements and progress made over the period 1980-2005. Various technical papers are included. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i1032e/i1032e00.pdf
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- This resource is part 2 of a 6 part document provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It provides an overview of trade and agriculture reforms in China, India and Malaysia since 1980. This part specifically includes a paper about food and agriculture prospects in the Asia-Pacific region, looking at past issues and the future. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i1032e/i1032e01.pdf
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- This resource is part 3 of a 6 part document provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It provides an overview of trade and agriculture reforms in China, India and Malaysia since 1980. This part describes food and rice production and consumption in the Asia-Pacific region compared with world levels, sources of agricultural growth, and factors affecting crop yields. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i1032e/i1032e02.pdf
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- This resource is part 4 of a 6 part document provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It provides an overview of trade and agriculture reforms in China, India and Malaysia since 1980. This part includes details of agricultural production growth, government expenditure, and projections of production, consumption and growth for the period 2030-2050. Details of emerging issues such as the effects of climate change are included. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
- Publisher
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i1032e/i1032e03.pdf
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- This resource is part 5 of a 6 part document provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It provides an overview of trade and agriculture reforms in China, India and Malaysia since 1980. This part contains four papers entitled 'Agricultural policy reforms in Asia: an overview of trends, issues and challenges' by Sisira Jayasuriya, 'Implications of trade liberalization for agriculture and farmers in China' by Dr Ni Hongxing, 'Trade negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda: State of play' by Yong-Kyu Choi, and 'Global financial and food crises: a Malaysian's perspective' by Larry Chee-Yoong Wong. Topics include: Asian economic changes, globalisation and agriculture, incentives, trade policy, exports, agricultural policy and market reforms. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i1032e/i1032e04.pdf
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- This resource is part 6 of a 6 part document provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It provides an overview of trade and agriculture reforms in China, India and Malaysia since 1980. It contains part of a paper entitled 'Global financial and food crises: a Malaysian's perspective' by Larry Chee-Yoong Wong and a paper entitled 'Global food and financial crises: experiences and perspectives from India' by Dr Ramesh Chand. Topics include: food exports, supply, food policies, effects of inflation, and the global food and financial crises. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i1032e/i1032e05.pdf
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- This case study of aquaculture in China is one of a series of individual country case studies which, together with synthesis papers and the report of a workshop, provide a detailed overview of feed and fertiliser use in sustainable aquaculture development in developing countries. The full report, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No.497, was published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2007. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- M Weimin; L Mengqing
- Publisher
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a1444e/a1444e00.pdf
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- This article examines changes in land use in Wuhan, China, over the period 1987-2005. The study used remote sensing techniques to determine land use data and spatial analysis software to quantify ecological metrics at both landscape and class levels. The article was published in the Journal of Geography and Geology Vol. 3, No. 1; September 2011.
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- Victor Tamba Simbay Kabba; Jiangfeng Li
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- Canadian Center of Science and Education
- http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jgg/article/view/8994
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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 report proposes a number of CO2 abatement cost curves and scenarios to set low-carbon targets and identify cost-effective, low-carbon investments to inform Shanghai municipal and Changning District governments in their commitment to transition to a low-carbon city. This includes a survey of buildings in the Hongqiao area to diagnose current energy use patterns, development of carbon abatement cost curves, prioritization of mitigation measures and development of three alternative abatement scenarios. This report was published by The World Bank in 2013.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16710
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- This study provides an overview of the global packaging industry, assesses the status and trends of food packaging in developing countries and identifies some food packaging solutions in developing countries.
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- Nerlita M. Manalili; Moises A. Dorado; Robert van Otterdijk
- Publisher
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3684e.pdf
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- This report contains 14 indicators of water quantity, water variability, water quality, public awareness of water issues, access to water and ecosystem vulnerability for the Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia. The results of this study helped to inform and shape the global Aqueduct Water Risk Framework.
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- Francis Gassert; Pragyajan Rai; Paul Reig; Matt Luck
- Publisher
- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-metadata-document-mekong-river-basin-study
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- This report contains 14 indicators of water quantity, water variability, water quality, public awareness of water issues, access to water and ecosystem vulnerability for the Yangtze River Basin in China. The results of this study helped to inform and shape the global Aqueduct Water Risk Framework.
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- Francis Gassert; Tianyi Luo; Tien Shiao; Matt Luck
- Publisher
- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-metadata-document-yangtze-river-basin-study
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- This report contains 14 indicators of water quantity, water variability, water quality, public awareness of water issues, access to water and ecosystem vulnerability for the Yellow River Basin in China. The results of this study helped to inform and shape the global Aqueduct Water Risk Framework.
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- Francis Gassert; Tianyi Luo; Tien Shiao; Matt Luck
- Publisher
- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-metadata-document-yellow-river-basin-study
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- This study estimates the strength of pollution-haven-seeking behaviour by foreign firms investing in China by examining the location choices of equity joint venture (EJV) projects. A location choice model is constructed and an econometric model derived incorporating the results from 2,886 manufacturing joint venture projects from 1993-96. Data is also included from the annual Chinese environmental and economic censuses. This document is World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3505, published in February 2005.
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- Judith M Dean; Mary E Lovely; Hua Wang
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/8902
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- This document reports on the regional consultation of the proposed voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land attended by representatives from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam which was held to assess regional priorities and issues to be considered when the guidelines were drafted.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/ak802e/ak802e00.pdf
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- This report explores the option of decentralization as a method of providing and financing basic education within Asia. It defines decentralization, explores other options for education finance, examines country experiences of decentralization in Asia (including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) and anticipates the future of education decentralization in Asia. This report was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002163/216312E.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 examines the importance of increasing access to technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as a method of addressing skills mismatches between school outcomes and the labour market across five countries (including China, Malaysia and Thailand). It examines the recent evolution of TVET in the region, challenges for the expansion of TVET, purposes and debates over suitability of vocationalisation as well as key issues of vocationalisation policy. This report was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002262/226220E.pdf
