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- This report introduces the importance of improving wastewater use in agriculture across the spectrum from lower to high-income countries. It links issues around wastewater irrigation to a country's level of economic development. It goes on to discuss improvements that can be made to agricultural wastewater use in order to reduce risks to public health, presenting the 2006 World Health Organization Guidelines in order to support its recommendations. This report was published by The World Bank in 2010.
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- Susanne M. Scheierling; Carl Bartone; Duncan D. Mara; Pay Drechsel
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3897
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- This report assists businesses in Southeast Asia to understand the need to adapt to climate change; to learn what others are doing in government, civil society and the private sector to promote adaptation; and to identify the risks and opportunities that climate change impacts present and act on them.
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- Lauren Withey; Karin Borgerson; Kirk Herbertson; Heather McGray; Jacqui Dixon; Marie Morice; Richard Welford; Helen Roeth
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/making-climate-your-business
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- This report presents the results of a survey on codes of conduct for teachers carried out in 24 countries (including India, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam) which examined the general perception of teachers' behaviours and attitudes, the content and coverage of the code, code development and design, implementation and dissemination of the code, the monitoring and application of the code and the perceived impact of the code.
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- Pippa McKelvie-Sebileau
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- International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001923/192392e.pdf
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- This book explores the growth prospects of six cities in East Asia, Bangkok, Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo, which are transitioning from traditional manufacturing activities to innovative activities, particularly in producer services and creative industries. The book is a co-publication of Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, and The World Bank, and was published in 2006.
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- Shahid Yusuf; Kaoru Nabeshima
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/7102
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- This report analyses the threats to coral reefs around the world, focusing particularly on the countries of the Coral Triangle - including Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It examines present pressures on coral reefs, including overfishing and destructive fishing, coastal development, and pollution from land and sea, as well as projected threats from climate-related ocean warming and acidification. It also studies the social and economic vulnerability of countries to reef loss and examines existing management efforts.
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- Lauretta Burke; Kathleen Reytar; Mark Spalding; Allison Perry
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/reefs-risk-revisited-coral-triangle
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- This report presents a summary of regional information on fisheries and aquaculture in Asia and the Pacific, including trends in marine capture fisheries in the South China Sea and the Bay of Bengal and aquaculture across the South and Southeast Asia subregions. It also discusses species in the region, aquaculture and fishery production and international and regional agreements. This report was published by the FAO in 2013.
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- Simon Funge-Smith; Matthew Briggs; Weimin Miao
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/i3185e/i3185e00.htm
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- This report recommends the regulation of private supplementary tutoring, based on examples of tutoring practices in Asia where private tutoring is prevalent. It provides a description of the tutoring sector, explains what, why and who should be regulated, what regulations there should be for different types of tutors and how the regulations could be implemented. This report was published by CERC in 2014.
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- Mark Bray; Ora Kwo
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- Comparative Education Research Center (CERC); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unescobkk.org/education/news/article/regulating-private-tutoring-for-public-good/
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- This document discusses the technological, economic and social contexts for educational ICT policy, a framework for ICT policies to transform education and using ICT policy to transform education. It includes a number of case studies, including Singapore's improvements to its ICT infrastructure and implementation of its ICT in Education Master Plans. This document was published by UNESCO in 2011.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/resources/online-materials/single-view/news/transforming_education_the_power_of_ict_policies-1/#.UzvXE6hkQ1I
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- This report examines mobile learning initiatives in Asia and their policy implications, including the context for mobile learning in Asia, key characteristics and potential issues of mobile learning initiatives, public policies on mobile learning, level of mobile learning activities across educational sectors, role of key stakeholders and major factors influencing mobile learning. This report was published by UNESCO in 2012.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002162/216283E.pdf
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- This report examines the potential of wind power as a renewable energy source. It covers the current global distribution of wind power installations, future development prospects, costs of wind power generation, barriers to wind power development, policy instruments to support wind energy, integration of wind power into electricity grids, and climate change and wind power. The report is Policy Research Working Paper 4868 from the The World Bank Development Research Group, Environment and Energy Team, and was published in March 2009.
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- G Cornelis van Kooten; Govinda R Timilsina
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4063
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- The “Digital Dividends” report focuses on the impact of digital technologies on economic development across the world, as opposed to the technology itself, and raises essential development questions about growth, equity and service delivery to get the most out of the digital revolution. This report includes UIS data and was published by The World Bank in 2016.
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- World Bank
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- World Bank
- http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2016/01/13/090224b08405ea05/2_0/Rendered/PDF/World0developm0000digital0dividends.pdf